---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 4105"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "4105"
heading: "Attorneys’ fees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/4105"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 181 — Foreign Judgments"
---

# §4105. Attorneys’ fees


In any action brought in a [domestic court](/usc/28/4101.md?p=2) to enforce a [foreign judgment](/usc/28/4101.md?p=4) for [defamation](/usc/28/4101.md?p=1), including any such action removed from [State](/usc/28/3002.md?p=14) [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2) to Federal [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2), the [domestic court](/usc/28/4101.md?p=2) shall, absent exceptional circumstances, allow the party opposing recognition or enforcement of the [judgment](/usc/28/3002.md?p=8) a reasonable attorney’s fee if such party prevails in the action on a ground specified in [section 4102(a)](/usc/28/4102.md?p=a), (b), or (c).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 111–223, § 3(a), Aug. 10, 2010, 124 Stat. 2383.)