Norma Maristuen, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Henrietta Sougstad, Deceased v. National States Insurance Company, a Missouri Corporation

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• holding that an order granting unquantified attorney's fees was not a final decision; thus, the award of fees was appealable until 30 days after the sum was calculated
• reasoning that a Rule 59(e) motion \would have been premature had it been filed within ten days of\ an order that was not a final judgment
• explaining that where a district court issues two separate judgments,. one of which leaves attorneys’ fees undetermined and one of which addresses the merits, Budinich controls and the court has jurisdiction over the merits appeal
• treating a request to amend a judgment as a Rule 59 motion despite references to Rules 50(b) and 60(b)
• “A judgment awarding damages but not deciding the amount of the damages . . . is not a final decision within the meaning of § 1291.”
• Because the original and first judgment had been later amended by the district court to include a quantified amount for the attorney's fees award, the first, unamended, \judgment was not final because it could not have been executed.\

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