adjusterjack
Senior Member
Actually real attorney has told me the law means $250 per hour. So I remained confused.
That's not what the statute says.the legislature has identified in that statute the maximum rate that an attorney fee can be awarded on a per hourly basis.
Call him back and ask him why he is reading something into the statute that isn't there. Ask for a citation of an appellate case that supports his interpretation.
When someone claims that a statute says something it doesn't say, the burden is on him to prove it by citing appellate case decisions that interpret the statutes.
Appellate and Supreme courts are the final arbiters of what a statute is saying.
And they will interpret a statute based on its plain wording.
There is nothing plainer than:
I agree that it's absurd and it's possible that an appellate court could also find it absurd, but I haven't found such a case decision in my search for one."reasonable attorney fees not to exceed $250"
@Taxing Matters would you please weigh in on this. Thanks.