{"id":126267,"date":"2025-07-10T12:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/10\/semantics-of-order-final-judgment-state-appellate-court-declines-to-consider-attorney-fee-challenge\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T12:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:41:46","slug":"semantics-of-order-final-judgment-state-appellate-court-declines-to-consider-attorney-fee-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/10\/semantics-of-order-final-judgment-state-appellate-court-declines-to-consider-attorney-fee-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Semantics of Order, Final Judgment: State Appellate Court Declines to Consider Attorney Fee Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

“In other words, Missouri law is clear that a motion that is expressly declared by Supreme Court Rule to be an independent action must be resolved by an independent judgment that meets the requirements of Rule 74.01(a) before it is final and appealable\u2014a principle made clear by cases interpreting Rule 74.05(d),” the court said.<\/p>\n

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“In other words, Missouri law is clear that a motion that is expressly declared by Supreme Court Rule to be an independent action must be resolved by an independent judgment that meets the requirements of Rule 74.01(a) before it is final and appealable\u2014a principle made clear by cases interpreting Rule 74.05(d),” the court said.<\/p>\n

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“In other words, Missouri law is clear that a motion that is expressly declared by Supreme Court Rule to be an independent action must be resolved by an independent judgment that meets the requirements of Rule 74.01(a) before it is final and appealable\u2014a principle made clear by cases interpreting Rule 74.05(d),” the court said. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126268,"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-126267","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\/07\/legal-news-xGzO3N.jpeg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126267","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=126267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}