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fee shifting

noun

(of a court) the action of awarding legal costs to the successful party in a lawsuit (=the winning party has to pay the losing party's legal fees as well as his/her own)America will never have a blanket rule of fee shifting because we're afraid that it would chill citizens' constitutional right to their day in court.

Synonyms and Other Spellings

fee-shifting