The Delaware Chancery Court on Wednesday cited the “steadfast opposition” of three New York-based plaintiffs’ firms in denying their bid to recover $1.5 million in fees for finding flaws in an unsuccessful challenge to the merger of two major furniture companies.

Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard on Wednesday credited attorneys from Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch, Wilk Auslander, and Morea Schwartz Bradham Friedman & Brown with identifying, for the first time, a series of missteps that eventually “removed a cloud hovering” over Herman Miller Inc.’s $124 million acquisition of Design Within Reach Inc. in 2014.