Trope v. Katz

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing modern trend to allow attorney fees to litigant represented by in-house counsel
• otherwise, it “would in effect create two separate classes of pro se litigants—those who are attorneys and those who are not—and grant different rights and remedies to each”
• otherwise, it “would in effect create two separate classes of pro se litigants—those who are attorneys and those who are not—and grant different rights and remedies to each”
• otherwise, it “would in effect create two separate classes of pro se litigants—those who are attorneys and those who are not—and grant different rights and remedies to each”
• “[Section 1717(a) ] was designed to establish mutuality of remedy when a contractual provision makes recovery of attorney fees available to only one party and to prevent the oppressive use of one-sided attorney fee provisions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).