State, Dept. of Transp. v. Skidmore

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial court may \deviate from the Guidelines depending on the facts of the case as justice may require\
• holding it was an abuse of discretion for trial court to award travel expenses for experts whose records did not indicate whether they had to travel for trial or discovery purposes from out of state
• approving hours spent by counsel for property owner in condemnation case and noting that it was not inconsistent with hours spent by the DOT's counsel
• holding attorney’s fees incurred regarding claim that portion of the land that was the subject of the taking was illegally-filled sovereign submerged lands should not have been included in fee award as such issue was “merely incidental to” eminent domain proceeding
• noting an award of costs is left to the court’s sound discretion, but office expenses such as, postage, should not be taxed as costs
• noting computer research costs are “overhead” and not compensable as costs

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