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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Fletcher Hill, Inc. v. Crosbie, 178 Vt. 77 (2005)

Citation
Fletcher Hill, Inc. v. Crosbie, 178 Vt. 77 (2005)
Parent Document
Fletcher Hill, Inc. v. Crosbie, 178 Vt. 77 (2005)
Jurisdiction
Vermont (state)
Effective Date
2005-01-14

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¶39. In making the former argument, the majority has drawn largely from federal law, quoting the Supreme Court in Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club, 463 U.S. 680,684 (1983), as noting that federal fee-shifting statutes contain “varying standards” and Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees v. INS, 336 F.3d 200, 208 (2d Cir. 2003), as saying that the addition of the word “substantially” goes to the amount or degree of recovery necessary to obtain a fee award. In fact, the state of the federal law is best explained in Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union v. Department of Energy, 288 F.3d 452, 455-56 (D.C. Cir. 2002):