Tunison v. Continental Airlines Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the meaning of “prevailing party” is generally same in either context- attorney's fees or costs
• explaining that “an empty judgment . . . carries no real relief and thus does not entitle the judgment winner to be treated as a prevailing party”
• rejecting prevailing party status where “the jury awarded [the plaintiff] no damages” and the plaintiff did not “demonstrate[] any ‘material alteration of the legal relationship’ between herself and Continental”
• “Rule 68 ... requires the plaintiff to be responsible for all costs accrued as a result of his own decision to reject the offer.”
• \Rule 68 ... requires the plaintiff to be responsible for all costs accrued as a result of his own decision to reject the offer.\
• “[A] judgment with no damages at all is not an ‘enforceable judgment’ – there is simply nothing to enforce.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).