Legal Opinion
Octane Fitness, LLC v. Icon Health
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 29, 2014No. 12–1184PublishedCited by 717 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
(b) The Brooks Furniture framework superimposes an inflexible framework onto statutory text that is inherently flexible. Pp. 1756 - 1758.(1) Brooks Furniture is too restrictive in defining the two categories of cases in which fee awards are allowed. The first category-cases involving litigation or certain other misconduct-appears to extend largely to independently sanctionable conduct. But that is not the appropriate benchmark. A district court may award fees in the rare case in which a party's unreasonable, though not independently sanctionable, conduct is so "exceptional" as to justify an…
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