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In the absence of a vested property right, no taking for purposes of Part I, Article 12 of the State Constitution has occurred.

In the absence of a vested property right, no taking for purposes of Part I, Article 12 of the State Constitution has occurred.

In the absence of a vested property right, no taking for purposes of Part I, Article 12 of the State Constitution has occurred.

“In the absence of a property right, no taking for purposes of part I, article 12 of the State Constitution has occurred____” Adams v. Bradshaw, 135 N.H. 7, 14 (1991), cert.

Because there is no remaining statutory claim nor any indication that the parties agreed to such an award, we infer that the court found that one of the established exceptions applied to this case.

While the general rule is “that each party to a lawsuit is responsible for payment” of its own attorney’s fees, Adams v. Bradshaw, 135 N.H. 7, 16, 599 A.2d 481, 487 (1991), cert.

We give great deference to a trial court’s rulings regarding attorney’s fees.

We give “tremendous deference” to a superior court decision on attorney’s fees, Adams v. Bradshaw, 135 N.H. 7, 16, 599 A.2d 481, 487 (1991), cert.

Although many of these theories ultimately proved unsuccessful, overall the plaintiffs’ case did not lack “any reasonable basis in the facts provable by evidence, or any reasonable claim in the law as it is, or as it might arguably be held to be.” Keenan v. Fearon, 130 N.H. 494, 502, 543 A.2d 1379, 1383 (1988); see also Adams v. Bradshaw, 135 N.H. 7, 17-18, 599 A.2d 481, 488 (1991); cert.

We give great deference to a trial court’s rulings regarding attorney’s fees.

We give deference to a trial court’s ruling on attorney’s fees.

Guaraldi v. Trans-Lease Group, 136 N.H. 457, 462, 617 A.2d 648, 651 (1992); Adams v. Bradshaw, 135 N.H. 7, 16, 599 A.2d 481, 487 (1991), cert.

“In evaluating the trial court’s ruling on this issue, we must first keep in mind the tremendous deference given to a lower court’s decision on attorney’s fees.” Adams v. Bradshaw, 135 N.H. 7, 16, 599 A.2d 481, 487-88 (1991), cert.

In the context of awarding attorney’s fees, we have described bad faith, or frivolous, litigation as actions in which parties are “forced to litigate in order to enjoy what a court has already decreed,” Adams v. Bradshaw, 135 N.H. 7, 17, 599 A.2d 481, 488 (1991), cert.

An award of fees may be appropriate if an unsuccessful party, litigating anemic arguments that lack a colorable basis in the facts and in the law as it is or arguably might be, has compelled the prevailing party to seek judicial intervention to secure a clearly defined and established property right.

While recognizing the “tremendous deference given to a lower court’s decision on attorney’s fees,” Adams v. Bradshaw, 135 N.H. 7, 16, 599 A.2d 481, 487 (1991), cert.

The general rule in New Hampshire is that attorney’s fees do not automatically flow in favor of a prevailing civil litigant.

The principle announced in Dugas is thus inapplicable to the owners’ claim, and no other grounds for awarding fees are relevant.

See, e.g., Adams v. Bradshaw, 135 N.H. 7, 14, 599 A.2d 481, 486 (1991) (“a property owner has no vested right in a sewer connection” and at most acquires a license), cert.