James Yowell v. Missouri Department of Corrections

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• holding that a fee petition filed within fourteen days of the initial final judgment but before an amended judgment was entered still satisfies the “no later than” requirement of Rule 54
• holding that a district court abused its discretion in reducing a fee award due to appellants’ alleged inability to provide a meaningful demand for actual damages suffered when appellants had in fact provided damages estimates to the court
• explaining that Fed. R. Civ. P. 54 “requires a petition [for fees] be filed ‘no later than’ 14 days after judg- ment is entered, not ‘within’ 14 days of a new judgment” and that a pre-judgment petition satisfies this require- ment
• “[W]hile appellants' fee petition originally was untimely, the court's entry of an amended judgment created ‘[a] new period for filing’ and cured that untimeliness . . . .”
• “[W]e are free to affirm the lower court on alternative grounds.”

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