{"id":123179,"date":"2025-06-17T10:06:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=123179"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:06:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:06:34","slug":"prevailing-party-out-700k-in-attorney-fees-for-missed-contractual-deadline-7th-circuit-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/17\/prevailing-party-out-700k-in-attorney-fees-for-missed-contractual-deadline-7th-circuit-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevailing Party Out $700K in Attorney Fees for Missed Contractual Deadline, 7th Circuit Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

“There is much to be said about contracts that use brightline rules to establish certainty. That is not this contract. Instead of setting a firm timeline, the contract created a continuing obligation for reclamation that survived its termination,” said Judge Joshua P. Kolar, who authored the opinion.<\/p>\n

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“There is much to be said about contracts that use brightline rules to establish certainty. That is not this contract. Instead of setting a firm timeline, the contract created a continuing obligation for reclamation that survived its termination,” said Judge Joshua P. Kolar, who authored the opinion.<\/p>\n

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“There is much to be said about contracts that use brightline rules to establish certainty. That is not this contract. Instead of setting a firm timeline, the contract created a continuing obligation for reclamation that survived its termination,” said Judge Joshua P. Kolar, who authored the opinion. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “There is much to be said about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/legal-news-kFVpDh.jpeg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123181,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123179\/revisions\/123181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}