United States v. Donald Heavrin

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• holding Hyde Amendment requires a single holistic analysis of “the prosecution’s position as a whole”
• noting that a Hyde Amendment award may be appropriate “[e]ven if the district court determines that part of the government’s case has merit” so long as “the government’s ‘position’ as a whole was vexa- tious, frivolous, or in bad faith”
• reversal of a Hyde Amendment award is required where the reviewing court is left with “a definite and firm conviction” that “a mistake has been made” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).