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Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. Kellstrom

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Declined by some courts
Court
Fifth Circuit
Citation
50 F.3d 319
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
44 of 44
Citing cases (total)
44
Treatment dates
2000
Declined by some courts
At least one reviewed court has declined to follow this case. No reviewed court has overruled it. Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. Kellstrom remains in use for its attorney’s fee rules. The Eleventh Circuit declined its approach to taxing the cost of trial exhibits, holding that statutory authorization is required even when pretrial approval was obtained.
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44 later cases cite Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. Kellstrom; 44 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Declined to follow

  • The Eleventh Circuit rejected taxing trial exhibit costs without statutory authorization and identified Kellstrom’s contrary allowance of those costs with pretrial approval.

    U.S. EEOC v. W & O, Inc. · Eleventh Circuit · filed

    Considering Johns-Manville in light of Crawford Fitting, we hold that exhibit costs are not taxable because there is no statutory authorization. ... The fact that other circuits disagree with this analysis is irrelevant. ... But see Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. Kellstrom, 50 F.3d 319, 335 (5th Cir. 1995) (requiring pretrial authorization for trial exhibits before permitting taxation of costs but not addressing effect of Crawford Fitting on taxation of exhibit costs under Johns-Manville).
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