Legal Opinion
Greco v. GSL Enterprises, Inc.
Civil Court of the City of New York
Decided December 2, 1987PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Lewis R. Friedman, J.
"In the United States, the prevailing litigant is ordinarily *715not entitled to collect a reasonable attorneys’ fee from the loser” (Alyeska Pipeline Co. v Wilderness Socy., 421 US 240, 247). The courts may not create a right to recover attorney’s fees; the right must be statutory or contractual. In the Federal jurisdiction alone there are currently well over 100 attorney’s fee-shifting statutes in areas as diverse as civil rights (42 USC § 1988), antitrust (15 USC § 15), Freedom of Information (5 USC § 552 [a] [4] [E]) and Truth in Lending (15 USC § 1640…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Wilderness SocietySupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Eaton v. New York City Conciliation & Appeals BoardNew York Court of Appeals · 1982
- Bender v. Jamaica HospitalNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
- Sadofsky v. SadofskyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1980
- 379 Madison Avenue Inc. v. Stuyvesant Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1934
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3Cited by3 opinions
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- Thenebe v. Ansonia AssociatesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996