The following excerpt is from Brighton Collectibles, Inc. v. Pedre Watch Co., Case No.: 11cv00637 AJB (WVG) (S.D. Cal. 2014):
Where a statute defines "costs" to include attorney's fees, such fees are to be included as costs for purposes of Rule 68 cost shifting. Marek v. Chesny, 473, U.S. 1, 8-9 (1985) (concluding "that the term 'costs' in Rule 68 was intended to refer to all costs properly awardable under the relevant substantive statute or other authority.") Thus, a plaintiff who rejects an offer more favorable than what is thereafter recovered at trial will not recover attorney's fees for services performed afterwards. Id.
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