Task: songer_stpolicy

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. You will be asked a question pertaining to issues that may appear in any civil law cases including civil government, civil private, and diversity cases. The issue is: "Did the interpretation of state or local law, executive order, administrative regulation, doctrine, or rule of procedure by the court favor the appellant?" Answer the question based on the directionality of the appeals court decision. If the court discussed the issue in its opinion and answered the related question in the affirmative, answer "Yes". If the issue was discussed and the opinion answered the question negatively, answer "No". If the opinion considered the question but gave a mixed answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part, answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion does not discuss the issue, or notes that a particular issue was raised by one of the litigants but the court dismissed the issue as frivolous or trivial or not worthy of discussion for some other reason, answer "Issue not discussed". If the opinion considered the question but gave a "mixed" answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part (or if two issues treated separately by the court both fell within the area covered by one question and the court answered one question affirmatively and one negatively), answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion either did not consider or discuss the issue at all or if the opinion indicates that this issue was not worthy of consideration by the court of appeals even though it was discussed by the lower court or was raised in one of the briefs, answer "Issue not discussed".

ORDER
On consideration of the petition for rehearing filed in the above-captioned case by appellants, all of the judges on the original panel have voted to deny a rehearing.
It is ORDERED, therefore, that the petition for rehearing is DENIED.
The appellees have filed a motion for an award of additional attorneys’ fees incurred in defending this appeal. They appear to advance two grounds in support of this motion. The first, the claim that a party awarded attorneys’ fees at trial is entitled to fees incurred in defending that award on appeal, is not convincing. While such may be the law when fees are awarded under the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act, see e.g. Bond v. Stanton, 630 F.2d 1231 (7th Cir.1980), cert. denied sub nom. Blinzinger v. Bond, 454 U.S. 1063, 102 S.Ct. 614, 70 L.Ed.2d 601 (1981), it is not the law when attorneys’ fees have been awarded on some other basis. Rather, in a case such as this the “American” rule applies, and each side must bear its own attorneys’ fees. See McCandless v. Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., Inc., 697 F.2d 198 (7th Cir.1983).
The second argument is equally unconvincing. The court below awarded fees because appellees had been subject to wrongful attachment by appellants, and Illinois law treats wrongful attachment as a tort. One element of the damages recoverable in a claim based on wrongful attachment is the attorneys’ fees incurred in setting aside the attachment. Baird v. Liepelt, 62 Ill.App.2d 154, 210 N.E.2d 1 (1965). Similarly, fees incurred in an appeal involving whether the attachment was proper may be recovered. Id. Appellees cite Baird v. Liepeit, supra, as if the case allows an award of fees whenever an appeal involves an award of fees incurred as a result of wrongful attachment. Baird, however, involved an appeal concerning the merits of the attachment, and Illinois law clearly contemplates that fees incurred during litigation over the attachment are a proper element of damages. The appeal before us did not involve whether the attachment had been proper, but whether the district court erred in awarding fees. As with any other tort action, fees incurred in defending the trial court’s award are not considered a part of the damages caused by the tort, although they undoubtedly diminish the recovery.
For the foregoing reasons, the petition for an award of attorneys’ fees incurred in this appeal is DENIED.

Question: Did the interpretation of state or local law, executive order, administrative regulation, doctrine, or rule of procedure by the court favor the appellant?
A. No
B. Yes
C. Mixed answer
D. Issue not discussed
Answer:

Answer: A