Crook v. Mortenson-Neal

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• allowing an eighty percent recovery ($15,337.60) where the conduct of the losing party “bordered on bad faith”
• affirming award of full fees based upon trial court’s specific finding that “[d]e-fendants litigated a weak and incredible defense”
• affirming an enhanced award based on the superior court's finding that \[d]efendants insisted on litigating a weak and incredible defense\ that \caused plaintiff justifiably to expend considerable effort on motions and trial practice\
• affirming 80% award of actual attorney’s fees when superior court found that litigant’s conduct “border[ed] on bad faith” because “the superior court was in the best position to evaluate the [litigant’s] demeanor and credibility” (emphasis in original

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