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Slagenweit v. Slagenweit, 63 F.3d 719 (8th Cir. 1995)

In Slagenweit v. Slagenweit, 63 F.3d 719 (8th Cir. 1995), the District Court denied the petition. While the appeal was pending, the District Court awarded costs to the father. The Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal as moot after the death of the child. The Court of Appeals held that although the case was mooted by tragic happenstance, the father was entitled to an award of costs as prevailing party, District court properly calculated costs, including the cost of the mother's deposition, a copy of the father's deposition, and of document translation costs. The mother did not show that her deposition was purely investigative, that the father used the copy of his deposition for reasons other than trial preparation, or that costs for document translation were unnecessarily incurred.