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From 450 U.S. 346 - Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. August · 1981Most cited · 798 citing opinions
that a prevailing plaintiff shall receive her costs "except in unusual circumstances," and we held last Term that a claim to an attorney's fee is not defeated if the plaintiff prevails by "settlement rather than through litigation." "Maher v. Gagne", 448 U.S. 122 , 129, 100 S.Ct. 2570, 2575, 65 L.Ed.2d 653 (1980).