Thomas v. National Science Foundation

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a court’s grant of a preliminary injunction “did nothing to vindicate” a claim seeking to obtain a refund
• finding that a court’s grant of a preliminary injunction “did nothing to vindicate” a claim seeking to obtain a refund
• denying prevailing-party status when preliminary injunction did not provide any benefit to plaintiff and did not provide any of the relief plaintiff originally sought
• reversing a fee award where the plaintiffs had secured a preliminary injunction freezing certain contested funds but a subsequent law rendered the case moot
• “Although we have developed this test in connection with requests for fees by plaintiffs, we have applied the latter two requirements to requests by defendants as well.”
• “Although we developed this test in connection with requests for fees by plaintiffs, we have applied its latter two requirements to requests by defendants as well.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).