Topic: liability for costs is a normal incident of defeat. · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 40 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. August.

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1 Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. August Anchor
scotus · 1981
green “liability for costs is a normal incident of defeat.” 16
2 Baez v. United States Department of Justice
cadc · 1982
green “a court may neither deny nor reduce a prevailing party's request for costs without first articulating some good reason for doing so.” 14
3 Baez v. United States Department of Justice
cadc · 1982
green “federal courts have placed on the unsuccessful parties some burden of showing circumstances sufficient to overcome the presumption favoring the prevailing party.” 10

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