ATTORNEY FEES: $532,662.35 fees & costs awarded 3rd-party Defendant flooring subcontractor and against Defendants/Counterclaimants contractor, realtors, and their joint counsel in convoluted litigation over hardwood flooring finish… subpoena for discovery as to whether fees or costs were paid by insurer denied as irrelevant to reasonableness… motion for relief from sanctions denied… Larson. [Read more…]
Discovery sanctions against counsel, business partners
DISCOVERY SANCTIONS: 3rd-Party Plaintiff’s counsel and business partners liable for sanctions awarded against “insolvent” 3rd-Party Plaintiff… Larson. [Read more…]
Indemnification, home contractor, flooring subcontractor
INDEMNIFICATION not allowed by Defendant home contractor against flooring subcontractor who is not liable to Plaintiffs who never purchased the home in hardwood flooring case… Larson. [Read more…]
Preliminary injunction, no “great or irreparable injury”
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION properly granted in access dispute without finding of “great or irreparable injury” (reconciling prior cases)… Berger affirmed. [Read more…]
Property, boundary, cattle operation corrals
PROPERTY: Judge properly determined that Plaintiffs own 27 acres with corrals which Defendants have used since 1943 and [Read more…]
Subdivision, preliminary plat approval
SUBDIVISION: Commissioners’ approval of preliminary plat unlawful for failure to comply with statutory requirements… McNeil reversed. [Read more…]