Succession of Charles B. Fanz, Jr. .

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• observing that impos- ing a cost award to the prevailing party when the appeal was decided on the merits is the “statutory default” and that a prevailing cost award “must be understood simply as a cost of litigation” not meant to “penalize the losing party”
• observing that impos- ing a cost award to the prevailing party when the appeal was decided on the merits is the “statutory default” and that a prevailing cost award “must be understood simply as a cost of litigation” not meant to “penalize the losing party”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).