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Court Of Federal Claims
ATTORNEY FEES - The Court of Federal Claims found that the government's position during a trial in the lower court, that an aviation company must return three planes under the Espionage Act, was not substantially justified. Under the Equal Access to Justice Act, the company is entitled to costs and fees incurred after 2003, plus more than $60,000 in attorney's fees. N.C. Appeals Court
ATTORNEY FEES - The North Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed a decision to disbar attorney James B. Ethridge after 30 years of practice after he tried to defraud an elderly woman who asked him to help her safeguard her property. Instead of undertaking a fiduciary duty for the woman, he deposited the money from her liquidated estate into his own bank account, withdrew some of it for himself, and later gave only part of the woman's money back to her guardian ad litem. |