In exercising this discretion the Supreme Court held that district courts should consider the objective reasonableness of the losing party’s position, but that the objective reasonableness was ...

All of that said, objective reasonableness can be only an important factor in assessing fee applications—not the controlling one. As we recognized in Fogerty, §505 confers broad discretion on ...

The Critique The objective reasonableness of fear Chauvin’s defense team used this key ingredient to justify use of force April 13, 2021 More than 4 years ago Summary ...

First, the Court found that the “objective-reasonableness” approach encourages parties with strong legal positions to stand on their rights and deters those with weak positions from proceeding ...

Objective reasonableness is a more ambiguous standard than a force continuum, and it provides more latitude for police officers, said Washburn University law professor Jeffrey Jackson.

What looks objectively reasonable to a judge might be far different from what looks reasonable to a rookie officer or to an observer.

One result stood out, Spruill said: The use of the term “objectively reasonable” was related to significantly less negative officer descriptions, compared with participants in the control group.

Even Thurgood Marshall, the famed civil rights lawyer and first Black justice, agreed with most of the unanimous ruling that set up the concept of the “objective reasonableness standard.” ...

The concepts of allowability, allocability, and reasonableness of costs address directly the legitimacy of a cost charged against a specific sponsored research award.