A litigant seeking more than $2.2 million in attorney fees and costs in a case worth one-tenth of that is entitled only to the roughly $700,000 awarded by a trial court because the litigant failed to address the reasonableness of its request, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.
A unanimous three-judge panel issued a memorandum April 13 in Shared Communications Services of ESR v. WHTR Real Estate Limited Partnership finding that more than 600 pages of time sheets were insufficient to support Shared Communications Services’ claim that the trial court’s award was in error. The decision did, however, restore nearly $100,000 in prejudgment interest that the trial court had taken away from SCS upon reconsideration.
