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The Weaponization of Attorney's Fees in an Age of Constitutional ...


The Weaponization of Attorney's Fees in an Age of Constitutional ...

The combined effect of these provisions is to impose prohibitively risky fee liability upon attorneys who represent a certain kind of litigant ...

The Weaponization of Attorney's Fees in an Age of Constitutional ...

washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/22/texas-abortion-law-vigilante-loophole-supreme- court [https://perma.cc/4KQF-3LZW] (“[A]t least 35 copycat laws have been ...

The Weaponization of Attorney's Fees in an Age of Constitutional ...

If you simply want to win battles in the culture war, you enact legislation that regulates firearms, prohibits abortions, ...

The Weaponization of Attorney's Fees in an Age of Constitutional ...

The Weaponization of Attorney's Fees in an Age of Constitutional Warfare. Authors. AVIEL, REBECCA; KERSH, WILEY. Publication. Yale Law Journal, 2023, Vol 132 ...

Yale Law Journal | Vol 132, No 7 - Informit

Article · The modern state and the rise of the business corporation · The weaponization of attorney's fees in an age of constitutional warfare.

Rebecca Aviel - Sturm College of Law - University of Denver

... legal services to litigants in family court. Her recent work, The Weaponization of Attorney's Fees in an Age of Constitutional Warfare, 132 Yale L.J. 2048 ...

Litigating Damages and Attorney Fees in Section 1983 Litigation

Most section 1983 cases involve constitutional claims based directly or indirectly on the Fourteenth Amendment. Typically, the claims are ...

Vol. 132 No. 7, May 2023 - Yale Law Journal

The Modern State and the Rise of the Business Corporation. The Weaponization of Attorney's Fees in an Age of Constitutional Warfare. The Critical Racialization ...

Judicial Discretion and the 1976 Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards ...

' The Awards Act, which was designed to encour- age the private enforcement of civil rights,2 provides that courts "in. [their] discretion, may allow the ...

Clarke Prize Legal Ethics CLE | Gonzaga University

... legal ethics for both law students and lawyers ... Her recent work, The Weaponization of Attorney's Fees in an Age of Constitutional Warfare, 132 Yale L.J. ...

Attorney's Fees, Nominal Damages, and Section 1983 Litigation

age suits to vindicate constitutional guarantees and deter their violation. At the same time, a sweeping rule favoring a full attorney's fee for any plaintiff.

The 'Weaponized' First Amendment at the Marble Palace and the ...

29987, 2022), https://www.nber.org/papers/w29987. 68 Lefemine v. Wideman, 568 U.S. 1, 2 (2012) (granting attorney's fees to anti-abortion protestors); Snyder.

Adding Insult to No Injury: The Denial of Attorney's Fees to ...

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act's fee-shifting provision is found at 29. U.S.C. § 626(b), which incorporates the attorney's fees provision from the ...

Weaponizing the Law: Attacks on Media Freedom

The systematic extinction of free speech now depends upon an arsenal of weapons aimed at the many rather than the few; a global tidal wave of legal threats ...

Attorney's Fees under the Civil Rights Act

suant to official municipal policy of some nature caused a constitutional tort. In particular, we conclude that a municipality cannot be held lia- ble solely ...

Recent Developments on Prevailing Party Attorneys' Fees In ...

Critics of the American Rule often point to the weaponization of attorneys' fees by parties in a superior financial position. Those parties ...

Awards of Attorneys' Fees by Federal Courts and Federal Agencies

Although "attorney's fees generally are not a recoverable cost of litigation 'absent explicit congressional authorization,' ... [t]he absence of specific ...

Litigation Highlight: Judge Finds Challenge to Fee-Shifting Provision ...

As codified, Section 1021.11(a) of the California law provides that: [A]ny person, including an entity, attorney, or law firm, who seeks ...

Dispute over attorney's fees in civil rights cases comes before justices

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a dispute over whether and when plaintiffs who obtain temporary relief in a civil rights case can ...

A Primer on the Law of Attorney's Fees Under § 1988

3 Hence, civil rights litigation in America employs a mod- ified English fee-shifting rule. Plaintiffs making constitutional claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ...