Cooke v. Universal Pictures Company

PALMIERI, District Judge.

Defendant, the prevailing party in this case, appeals from rulings of the Clerk of this Court in which the Clerk disallowed four items of defendant’s bill of costs. Three of these items concern the cost of obtaining copies of stenographic minutes of depositions taken by plaintiff. The other concerns the cost of obtaining stenographic minutes of the trial proceedings which were ordered by defendant because it believed that the minutes would be useful in the defense of the action.

The statute provides that “[a] judge or clerk of any court of the United States may tax as…