Denesha v. Farmers Insurance Exchange

How courts have described this case

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• denying fees because “[w]hile plaintiff’s counsel may believe that the mock trial enhanced their preparation and enabled them to make a more effective representation, the case could certainly have been tried without this type of pretrial preparation”
• “[T]he issues in the case were not so complex that they warranted three counsel for plaintiff throughout trial.”
• rev’d in part on other grounds, 161 F.3d 491 (8th Cir. 1998) (“The Court will not require defendant to pay for time spent educating additional counsel about the case one month before trial.”
• disallowing attorneys’ fees for mock trial session

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).