Jones v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a party’s failure to properly support a request for attorney fees “effectively handcuffed” the opposing party
• concluding that trial court’s finding of reasonable attorney fees was clearly erroneous given the “meager state of the record” that did not contain documentary support for the attorney fees requested
• stating that under the law-of-the- case doctrine, “this Court’s determination of an issue in a case binds both the trial court on remand and this Court in subsequent appeals.”
• “Allowing discovery on the basis of conjecture would amount to allowing an impermissible fishing expedition.”
• rejecting an award of attorney fees based on testimony from the plaintiff’s attorneys that was “replete with speculation, conjecture, and a denial of knowledge”
• rejecting an award of attorney fees based on testimony from the plaintiff’s attorneys that was “replete with speculation, conjecture, and a denial of knowledge”

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