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In $22 Million Fee Swing, Ninth Circuit Vacates Attorneys Fee Award to EchoStar, Orders EchoStar to Pay Opposing Counsel from NDS $18 Million
Publication Date: 2010-08-10
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Talk about a turnaround! After a 2008 trial in which EchoStar won a whopping damages award of $45.69 (no, we're not missing the word "million") on its $2 billion in claims against NDS, the judge nevertheless awarded EchoStar attorneys fees of $13 million (and about $9 million to NDS). But the Ninth Circuit declared NDS the winner of the trial, vacated the EchoStar fee award, and doubled attorneys fees for NDS.

August 12, 2010 |

In $22 Million Fee Swing, 9th Circuit Vacates Attorney Fee Award to EchoStar

In 2008, a federal district court jury in California found that pay-TV provider NDS had intercepted EchoStar's satellite signal in a single test of piracy methods, but they awarded EchoStar a whopping $45.69 in actual damages and $1,500 in statutory damages -- not exactly the $2 billion EchoStar sought. Both sides were awarded attorney fees with a net award of $4 million to EchoStar's lawyers. But the 9th Circuit has concluded that NDS won the trial, and EchoStar now has to pay NDS $18 million, a swing of $22 million.
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