{"id":130457,"date":"2025-08-14T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=130457"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:03:10","slug":"district-judge-rejects-walmarts-request-for-fees-based-on-similar-discretionary-fee-provision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/14\/district-judge-rejects-walmarts-request-for-fees-based-on-similar-discretionary-fee-provision\/","title":{"rendered":"District Judge Rejects Walmart’s Request for Fees Based on Similar Discretionary-Fee Provision"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Even though the court ultimately decided against Giovannelli, he reasonably argued that his publicity act claim was not time-barred because, in his view, the discovery rule applied and extended the statute of limitations for his claim. Thus, Giovannelli’s arguments contesting the statute of limitations defense were not frivolous; rather, they were founded upon a reasonable (though losing) request that this court apply an oft-litigated exception to the statute of limitations,” Judge Edmond E. Chang wrote.<\/p>\n

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“Even though the court ultimately decided against Giovannelli, he reasonably argued that his publicity act claim was not time-barred because, in his view, the discovery rule applied and extended the statute of limitations for his claim. Thus, Giovannelli’s arguments contesting the statute of limitations defense were not frivolous; rather, they were founded upon a reasonable (though losing) request that this court apply an oft-litigated exception to the statute of limitations,” Judge Edmond E. Chang wrote.<\/p>\n

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“Even though the court ultimately decided against Giovannelli, he reasonably argued that his publicity act claim was not time-barred because, in his view, the discovery rule applied and extended the statute of limitations for his claim. Thus, Giovannelli’s arguments contesting the statute of limitations defense were not frivolous; rather, they were founded upon a reasonable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/legal-news-yEiYau.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130476,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130457\/revisions\/130476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}