Cottonwood Mall Co. v. Sine

How courts have described this case

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• noting that while trial courts have discretion regarding the award of attorney fees, they also have a duty to enter specific findings based on the evidence presented to support the award
• remanding for further proceedings where party failed to provide adequate basis for award, essentially preventing court from applying the factors of Cabrera v. Cottrell, 694 P.2d 622, 624-25 (Utah 1985)
• listing “several factors that should be assessed in determining the reasonableness of attorney fees”
• declining to award attorney fees associated with collecting rent for a holdover period after the lease expired because the lease expressly permitted attorney fees only for the collection of rent under the lease
• stat- 31 STROHM v. CLEARONE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. JUSTICE LEE, dissenting/Opinion of the Court ing that attorney fees must be reasonable
• “Except in the most simple cases, the evidence should include the hours spent on the case, the hourly rate or rates charged for those hours, and usual and customary rates for such work.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).