HDRE Business Partners Ltd. Group, L.L.C. v. RARE Hospitality International, Inc.

JENNIFER WALKER ELROD, Circuit Judge:

HDRE Business Partners Limited Group, L.L.C., appeals the district court’s award of attorneys’ fees for RARE Hospitality International, Inc., under an attorneys’ fees provision in a lease agreement between the parties that was subsequently novated by another agreement. Because the attorneys’ fees provision was extinguished when the lease was novated, we REVERSE -the district court’s judgment awarding attorneys’ fees.

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This attorneys’ fees dispute arises out of an underlying lease dispute between HDRE Business Partners Limited Group, L.L.C. (“HDRE”), and…