Sutherland v. Rasnake

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that district courts “ha[ve] [the] discretion to decide whether or not to assess” an interpleader award against “the fund,” “the losing claimants,” or “among the claimants”
• explaining that district courts, 5 in interpleader actions, “may discharge the plaintiff from further liability, make the injunction 6 permanent, and make all appropriate orders to enforce its judgment” (citing 28 U.S.C. § 2361)
• interpreting “vessel” under the Maritime Lien Act, 46 U.S.C. §§ 971-975
• remanding for reduction fee award of $5,000 from $48,000 interpleaded fund
• under 28 U.S.C. § 2361, federal courts “continue[] the former equity practice of allowing attorney fees to interpleading plaintiffs in strict actions of interpleader”
• “[T]he proper rule ... 13 in an action in the nature of interpleader, is that the plaintiff should be awarded attorney 14 fees for the services of his attorneys in interpleading.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).