Wilson v. Fireman's Insurance

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• recognizing that there is no “right to be free from racially disparate effects” that are 16 unintentional
• holding that the presumption in favor of awarding costs to a prevailing party “provides all the reason a court needs for awarding costs, and when a district court states no reason for awarding costs, we will assume it acted based on that presumption”
• requiring that a district court need only 14 explain a refusal to deny costs under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(d) in a § 1983 action
• ruling broadly that “agency regulations cannot independently create rights enforceable through § 1983”
• holding “that the district court 8 || abused its discretion in rejecting a losing civil rights plaintiffs motion to deny costs to the 9 | defendant without considering: (1) the plaintiff's limited financial resources and (2
• holding “that the district court abused 9 | its discretion in rejecting a losing civil rights plaintiff's motion to deny costs to the 10 | defendant without considering: (1) the plaintiff's limited financial resources and (2

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