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***FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST'S HAWAII REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER*** <br /> charges, such as by Westlaw and by Lexis, to be taxed to losing <br /> parties as costs . This court in DFS Group agreed with the ICA <br /> that legal research costs are already "subsumed within an <br /> attorney' s fee and therefore such costs may not be awarded in <br /> addition to attorneys' fees . " Id. at 223, 131 P. 3d at 506. <br /> Appellant argues to the contrary that HRS § 101-27 "establishes <br /> an `actual causation' standard for measuring damages - meaning <br /> that if a property owner actually incurs damages `by reason of <br /> the bringing of the [condemnation] proceedings, "' then that <br /> damage should be recoverable . <br /> Because " [Appellant] is separately obligated to pay for <br /> computer-assisted legal research accomplished by counsel related <br /> to the appeal of Condemnation 1 [ , ] " Appellant maintains it should <br /> recover its actual costs in order "to be restored to the position <br /> it would have been in had [the] County not instituted <br /> [Condemnation 1] . " However, under this court' s rationale in DFS <br /> Group, if Appellant collects an appropriate attorney' s fee <br /> pursuant to HRS § 101-27 , it will have already been "made <br /> whole" for its research costs, and any additional taxation of <br /> those costs to the County would provide Appellant with a <br /> windfall . Thus, departure from the rule established in DFS Group <br /> is not warranted, and any separate recovery for legal research <br /> costs as "other reasonable costs" under HRS § 101-27 is denied. <br /> 18 <br />