Three-Seventy Leasing Corporation, Cross-Appellee v. Ampex Corporation, Cross-Appellant

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• reversing a district court’s award of costs to the defendant where the plaintiff won its breach of contract claim and was entitled to an award of nominal damages
• district court does not have power to award costs to defendants even though plaintiffs won only nominal damages
• “Rule 54(d) . . . gives [the district court] discretion to order that each party bear part or all of its own costs.”
• Rule 54(d) gives court discretion to order each party to bear its own costs
• “Rule 54(d) does not give the district court the power to award costs to the nonprevailing party, but only gives that court discretion to order that each party bear part or all of its own costs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).