Re: Was Scope of Agreement or Letter of Intent-Now unemployed.

[Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net>]

Kat Nagel wrote:
 
> Andrew Plato wrote:
> >  > If you lose a case, you can be
> >  > held responsible for the other side's legal fees.
> >  > Then your $5000 invoice becomes a $15,000 debt.

 
> Peter replied:
> >In what states in the US is there such a rule? I am not aware of any
> >state East of the Mississippi that has such a rule. Most Western states
> >do not. I am curious.
> 
> It's fairly common, apparently.  A couple of quick searches on
> Google, Vivisimo, and AskJeeves turned up lots of examples, mostly
> from Federal District and Small Claims courts all over the country:
> Texas, NY, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, California, Oregon,
> Vermont, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Alabama, North Dakota,
> Illinois---all on the first few pages.  In the cases I looked at,
> judgements that included legal fees and court costs were about
> equally distributed between plaintiffs and defendents.

Please read the cases and let us know where a payment of legal fees was
awarded without a prevailing party pays clause in the contract. 


-- 
Peter
- a chrono- logically experienced citizen
and ex Law Professor


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