State ex rel. Trotter v. State

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• finding that the plaintiff was the prevailing party where the defendant accepted an offer of judgement stating their liability
• prevailing party is a legal term of art . . . [referring to] one who has been awarded some relief by the court. . .
• “prevailing party is a legal term of art . . . [referring to] one who has been awarded some relief by the court” [emphasis added; internal quotation marks omitted]
• “plaintiff was the prevailing party of record because a judgment had been ordered in his favor”
• “In order to determine [whether the nature of the defendant’s defenses to plaintiff’s claims are frivolous], there mut be an evidentiary hearing.”
• “The plaintiff’s argument for an award of attorneys’ fees relies upon the allegations set forth in his complaint, his motions for attorneys’ fees and the accompanying memorandum.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).