A company’s attorney fees award from the Missouri Mining Commission (MMC) was reversed in the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District. The court remanded the case with directions to deny the company’s fee application.

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Where appellant, who had submitted a Sunshine Law request to a city for documents connected with allegations of criminal conduct by a police officer, challenged the denial of his request to view an unredacted copy of the relevant report, the ...

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Where buyers in a real estate transaction involving the purchase of land and a business challenged the denial of relief on their action for injunctive relief, quiet title and restitution, the judgment is affirmed in part because the trial court ...

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St. Louis Effort for AIDS, et al. v. Lindley-Myers, et al. (MLW No. 71261/Case No. 16-3647-7 pages) (Benton, J.)

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A federal judge in St. Louis used phrases including “somewhat appalling” and “grossly excessive” when she took a hatchet to plaintiff attorneys’ fee requests in a case over a Macon County jail rape.

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The standard for awarding attorneys’ fees for prevailing defendants in patent cases is “unduly rigid,” the U.S. Supreme Court found in a decision announced Tuesday that involved a manufacturer represented by a team of Missouri attorneys.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to adopt a standard for filing a notice of appeal that would vary depending on whether attorney fees are awarded pursuant to a statute or a contract.

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The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court considered on Tuesday whether an award of contractual attorney fees is part of a final judgment, or a collateral determination made after a judgment

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In three separate cases — two class actions and a breach of contract case — three judges weighed how much plaintiffs deserved in attorneys’ fees and decided it wasn’t nearly as much as the lawyers thought.

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J&M Securities LLC v. Brown (MLW No. 64446/ED97242 – 7 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Dowd, J.)

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Bjornestad v. Progressive Northern Insurance Company (MLW No. 63136/Case No. 10-3733 – 8 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Bye, J.)

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