U.S. Supreme Court
May 1, 2014
Supreme Court's fee-shifting ruling has uncertain impact
Loosening the reins on attorney fee awards in patent cases, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday gave a freer hand to district judges.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Loosening the reins on attorney fee awards in patent cases, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday took the issue away from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where rigid rulemaking governed, and gave a freer hand to district judges.
The high court's intent may have been to ease so-called fee shifting, in which the prevailing party collects its legal bills from the loser. But the ruling ...
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