Fox v. Vice

Fox v. Vice
Fox v. Vice
	L. Ed. 2d 45
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Holding
	Reasonable fees may be granted to the defendant in a suit that involves both frivolous and non-frivolous claims, but only for costs resulting from the frivolous claims.
Court membership
	Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy; Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito; Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinion
Majority	Kagan, joined by unanimous

Fox v. Vice, 563 U.S. 826 (2011), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that reasonable fees may be granted to the defendant in a suit that involves both frivolous and non-frivolous claims, but only for costs resulting from the frivolous claims.^[1]

Notes

^ ". When a plaintiff's suit involves both frivolous and non-frivolous claims, a court may grant reasonable fees to the defendant, but only for costs that the defendant would not have incurred but for the frivolous claims." p. 2

References

Supreme Court of the United States (June 2011). "Fox v. Vice (Syllabus)". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Supreme Court of the United States (June 2011). "Fox v. Vice (Opinion)". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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[1] ". When a plaintiff's suit involves both frivolous and non-frivolous claims, a court may grant reasonable fees to the defendant, but only for costs that the defendant would not have incurred but for the frivolous claims." p. 2

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