Legal Opinion
Hartford Police F.C.U. v. DeMaio (In Re DeMaio)
United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Connecticut
Decided September 17, 1993No. 19-20172PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION ON PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF ATTORNEY’S FEES
ROBERT L. KRECHEVSKY, Chief Judge.
I
ISSUE
At issue in this litigation is whether the plaintiff, the prevailing party in a Bankruptcy Code § 523(a)(4) exception to discharge proceeding, is barred from recovering attorney’s fees because it failed to sufficiently plead in its complaint a claim for attorney’s fees and produced no evidence at trial on its entitlement to such fees.
II
BACKGROUND
After a full trial and the submission of post-trial briefs by the parties, the court entered judgment in favor of the plaintiff,…
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