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: North Carolina Appellate Blog4th Circuit Slashes Attorneys' Fee Award
By Sean E. Andrussier
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This past week (Dec. 3) the Fourth Circuit in Grissom v. The Mills Corp. vacated a $325,500 award in attorneys' fees and costs that was entered following plaintiff's acceptance of a Rule 68 offer of judgment (for $130,000) in a SOX whistleblower case. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 68. First, the Court held that Rule 68 doesn't permit an award of fees/costs incurred after the date of the Rule 68 offer of judgment: Rule 68 says the party who tenders the offer may recover the "costs then accrued." Id. (e read more
Full post as published by North Carolina Appellate Blog on December 07, 2008 (boomark / email).
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