VERDICT: $697,671.45 after present-value reduction, cattle damages and emotional distress, illegal fence around oil wellsite, failure to maintain fence. [Read more…]
$1,483,449 attorney fees, coal tract transfer
ATTORNEY FEES: $1,483,449 fees/costs recommended by Strong approved by Christensen for decades of stonewalling by US which forced Plaintiffs to litigate statutory right to coal tract transfer, over objection by US to rates of $500 for 1 attorney, $300 for 6. [Read more…]
Condemnation/appeal, fees, law of case
CONDEMNATION/APPEAL: Prior remand limited to determination of amount of fees, award of $116,739.53 affirmed, but subsequent order declaring 70-30-306(2) unconstitutional exceeded law of case and remand instructions… Curtis affirmed, reversed (IOR I-3(d)). [Read more…]
$1,483,449 attorney fees/costs, coal tract transfer
ATTORNEY FEES: $1,483,449.12 fees/costs recommended (of $2,079,229 sought) for decades of stonewalling by US which forced Plaintiffs to litigate statutory right to coal tract transfer in which they received $5,536,000 worth of coal… amount [Read more…]
Unjust enrichment, co-Defendant Diocese liability
UNJUST ENRICHMENT: Claim that Diocese is separate from co-Defendant Indian school to be resolved on remand, rehearing denied… order. [Read more…]
Unjust enrichment, Indian school fundraising
UNJUST ENRICHMENT claims may arise from Indian school’s alleged failure to distribute equitable shares of funds to Tribe which it obtained by marketing plight/need of Tribe… forensic accounting cause supplanted by discovery rules… contract, negligent misrepresentation, fraud, conversion, cultural [Read more…]
Injunction, appeal moot after sale of property
INJUNCTION: Appeal of H. Brown’s denial of TRO and request for remand for preliminary injunction to stop trustee’s sale of building damaged in gas explosion mooted by subsequent transfers of property, failure to request stay pending appeal… alleged fraudulent conveyance not an [Read more…]