Brian T. Fitzpatrick & Cameron T. Norris, One-Way Fee Shifting After Summary Judgment (2016), available on SSRN.

Jay Tidmarsh

In One-Way Fee Shifting After Summary Judgment, Brian Fitzpatrick and his student, Cameron Norris, address what has been the dominant impulse in federal procedural reform for the past thirty-five years: reducing cost and delay in civil litigation.

The most recent effort to curb litigation expense — the 2015 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that, among other things, sought to invigorate […]