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Many statutes at both the federal and state levels allow the winner to recover reasonable attorney's fees, [3] and there are two major exceptions in federal case law as well. [ 4 ] Under Rule 54(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure , [ 2 ] federal statutes may supersede the default rule of not awarding attorney fees.
For example, California has a "Small Estate Summary Procedure" to allow the summary transfer of a decedent's asset without a formal probate proceeding. The dollar limit by which the small estate procedure can be effectuated was $150,000 [ 34 ] before a statutory increase was implemented on a three-year schedule, [ 35 ] arriving at $184,500 by ...
Stalley, [3] a Michigan lawyer relied on the official text of the Uniform Probate Code and failed to check the statute as it had been adopted in Florida. As a result, the lawyer missed a filing deadline on a $3,760,909.49 claim.
California argued that under Public Law 280 (1953) Congress had granted six states – Alaska, California, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, and Wisconsin – criminal jurisdiction over Native American tribal lands within the state's borders. [3] If California's regulatory laws prohibited gambling on a criminal basis, then it is likely Public Law ...
For example, on March 1, 1901, Puerto Rico enacted a Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure which were modeled after the California Penal Code, [1] [2] and on March 10, 1904, it enacted a Code of Civil Procedure modeled after the California Code of Civil Procedure. [3] Thus, California case law interpreting those codes was treated as ...
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The Florida Statutes are the codified, statutory laws of Florida; it currently has 49 titles. A chapter in the Florida Statutes represents all relevant statutory laws on a particular subject. [1] The statutes are the selected reproduction of the portions of each session law, which are published in the Laws of Florida, that have general ...
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