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SLETTELAND v. ROBERTS

No. 02-323.

64 P.3d 979 (2003)

2003 MT 17

James P. SLETTELAND, individually and on behalf of Billings Generation, Inc., a Montana corporation, and Billings Generation, Inc., as general partner of, and on behalf of Yellowstone Energy Limited Partnership, a Montana limited partnership, Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. R. Lee ROBERTS, Owen H. Orndorff, and Billings Generation, Inc., a Montana corporation, Defendants and Respondents. R. Lee Roberts and Owen H. Orndorff, Counterclaimants and Respondents, Jeffrey L. Smith, Intervening Counterclaimant, v. James P. Sletteland, Counterclaim Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided February 11, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald F. Waterman, Gough, Shanahan, Johnson & Waterman, Helena, Bernard M. Althoff and Anne B. Carroll, Satterlee, Stephens, Burke & Burke, LLP, New York, New York, for Appellant.

Ward E. Taleff, Alexander, Baucus, Taleff & Paul, P.C., Great Falls, for Respondents.

Justice W. WILLIAM LEAPHART delivered the Opinion of the Court.

¶ 1 Appellant, James P. Sletteland (Sletteland), appeals the District Court's award of attorney fees to Respondents, Owen H. Orndorff, R. Lee Roberts, and Jeffrey L. Smith (the ORS group). We affirm.

¶ 2 This appeal concerns the District Court's award of costs and attorney fees to the ORS group associated with Sletteland's shareholder derivative claim, the ORS group's counterclaim, and...

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