Tierra Holdings, Ltd. v. Mercantile Bank

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• noting that “nothing in the language of section 768.79 authorizes the modification of a contractual right to attorney’s fees”
• adding that because an award pursuant to the statute serves as a penalty, the strict construction rule must be applied in favor of the party against whom the penalty is imposed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).