Wiggin v. Suffolk Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• evaluating mer- its of parties’ positions in litigation to determine who pre- vailed despite neither receiving relief sought in determin- ing attorney fee award
• court can decide attorney fee claims relating to substantive claim or claims but not “small proce- dural disputes within a case”
• “[W]e consider [a statute’s] text in context, giving any pertinent legislative history such weight as is appropriate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).