Tutor-Saliba Corp. v. City of Hailey

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a Fourteenth Amendment due process claim requires a plaintiff to show a “denial of adequate 3 20-16786 procedural protections”
• explaining that the district court should “provide a concise but clear explanation of its reasons for the fee award” and that if it fails to do so, the appellate panel “will remand the award for the court to provide an explanation”
• examining whether the plaintiff had a factual and legal basis for his claims at the outset of litigation
• reviewing de novo whether the district court applied the correct legal standard in awarding attorney’s fees
• following other circuits in permitting defendants to recover fees under § 1988 for those claims that were frivolous, even when related to the non-frivolous claims, so long as the claims were “distinctive”
• following other circuits in permitting defendants to recover fees under § 1988 for those claims that were frivolous, even when related to the non-frivolous claims, so long as the claims were “distinctive”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).