Title 12 — Banks and Banking
Chapter 43 — Actions Against Persons Committing Bank Fraud Crimes
§ 4246. Awards of costs and fees to prevailing plaintiff
Statutory text
When the United States, through private counsel retained under this subchapter, prevails in any civil action, the court, in its discretion, may allow the United States reasonable attorney’s fees and other expenses of litigation as part of the costs.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Financial Institutions Anti-Fraud Enforcement Act of 1990
Pub. L. 101–647 title XXV § 2593 · 104 Stat. 4789
Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 4246
(Pub. L. 101–647, title XXV, § 2593, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4906.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–647, title XXV, § 2593, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4906.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 2593. AWARDS OF COSTS AND FEES TO PREVAILING PLAINTIFF. When the United States, through private counsel retained under this chapter, prevails in any civil action, the court, in its discretion, may allow the United States reasonable attorney’s fees and other expenses of litigation as part of the costs.
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