Legal Opinion
Trugreen Companies, LLC v. Mower Bros.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 2, 2014No. 13-4105PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND JUDGMENT *
NEIL M. GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.
Back in 2006 TruGreen managers felt betrayed when a handful of employees left to work for a rival lawn care company. TruGreen sued, charging, its former employees with breaching their employment contracts. In the end, the company lost that claim and the victorious former employees — some based in Idaho, others in Utah — asked the court to order the company to pay their attorney fees and expenses. As these things go, the parties managed to consume as many years litigating that collateral question as they had the merits. When the dust finally…
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