JC Penney Takes $3M Atty Fee Battle To Texas High Court

By Paul DeBenedetto (March 30, 2015, 9:01 PM EDT) -- JC Penney Co. Inc. on Friday asked the Texas Supreme Court to overturn a $3.1 million attorneys' fee awarded by a trial judge in a shareholder derivative suit against the retailer that alleged an improper executive compensation scheme, arguing that the lower courts erred in refusing to use the lodestar method to calculate the fees....

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