State v. Tibbs

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting, in a suit to recover attorney’s fees under a fee-shifting statute, an attorney’s attempt to assert her client’s claim for attorney’s fees because the client’s ability to claim the fees “would be undermined if [the attorney] could independently pursue an award”
• “Under fee-shifting statutes in general, there is a distinction between the party’s entitlement to claim an award of fees and the attorney’s right to receipt of fees that are awarded.”
• “The client’s lack of interest does not transfer the client’s right to the attorney.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).