We thank The Blog of Legal Times for pointing us to a recent article in The National Law Journal on a fees/costs ruling in an Idaho federal case.
There, an Idaho U.S. magistrate judge recently ruled that Department of Justice would pay $2.24 million in legal fees and costs to plaintiffs’ attorneys in an Idaho property railroad right-of-way case involving property worth $883,000. DOJ had argued for an award of $685,000, while plaintiffs requested $2.4 million. The case had been on-going for about 10 years. One of plaintiffs’ counsel estimated that both sides had expended total fees and costs of about $4 million on taxpayers’ “dimes” to litigate this case over the $883,000 right-of-way.