Opinion ID: 203262
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Bill of Costs

Text: We ordinarily review a district court's award of costs for abuse of discretion. In re San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire Lit., 111 F.3d 220, 228 (1st Cir.1997); see also García-Goyco v. Law Envtl. Consultants, Inc., 428 F.3d 14, 18 (1st Cir. 2005). In doing so, we remember that an award of costs is the type of discretionary ruling to which appellate courts should give `virtually complete' deference. Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire, 111 F.3d at 228 (quoting Estate of Borst v. O'Brien, 979 F.2d 511, 517 (7th Cir.1992)).
Ramos alleges that the district court erred in awarding UPS litigation costs because it did so before the ten-day period to file an objection to a bill of costs had run out. See D.P.R. R. 54(b). Specifically, UPS filed its brief in support of its bill of costs on October 24, 2006, and the district court granted its award of costs within the ten-day period on November 2, 2006. Yet Ramos never filed his objection to the bill of costs either before or after it was awarded. As such, and according to the text of Puerto Rico Local Rule 54(b), Ramos has waived his objection. Id. (Unless within ten (10) days after the filing of a bill of costs the opposing party files a written objection thereto, incorporating a memorandum of law, the opposing party shall be deemed to have waived objection and the Clerk shall tax the costs which appear properly claimed.)