Rochon Corp. v. City of St. Paul

OPINION

SMITH, Judge.

Appellant challenges the district court’s refusal to award attorney fees and litigation costs incurred after it successfully challenged respondent-city’s bidding process for a municipal-contracting project. Appellant was awarded the full costs of its bid submission as allowed under the Minnesota Uniform Municipal Contracting Law (the UMCL). Because the UMCL unambiguously prohibits the award of attorney fees under these circumstances, we decline to adopt appellant’s argument that it is entitled to attorney fees and costs under Minnesota’s private attorney general statute.…