North River Insurance v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER RE COSTS

NICHOL, Chief Judge.

The defendant, St. Paul Fire and Marine, has requested taxation of the cost of a copy of the trial transcript. This cost was incurred in the course of the defendant’s preparation in resisting the plaintiff’s unsuccessful appeal. The Clerk has disallowed the cost of this copy.

*400The taxation of transcript costs is governed by 28 U.S.C. section 1920, which states that “a judge or clerk of any court of the United States may tax as costs the . fees of the court reporter for all or any part of the stenographic transcript necessarily obtained for use in…