Sullivan County, Tennessee v. The Home Indemnity Company

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• holding that an attorneys’ fees award is not a sum 8 insured is legally obligated to pay as damages because of the insurance policy’s specific 9 limitations
• determining that an award of attorney’s fees and costs under § 1988 are not damages
• “In the language of the law . . . there is a clear distinction between ‘costs’ and ‘damages.’”
• “Congress expressed an unambiguous intent in 42 U.S.C. § 1988 to award attorney’s fees ‘as part of costs’; i.e., as an additional component of the traditional costs taxed by the court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1920.” (quotation marks omitted)

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