While the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently upheld a judgment in favor of a Canadian manufacturer of hand sanitizer in a contract dispute arising out of COVID-era purchases, the panel reversed a $185,000 award to its counsel with Norton Rose Fulbright.
In part, the court sided with a Minnesota retail distributor, Reach Companies, in holding that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) doesn’t authorize awarding attorney fees, in turn, reversing a $185,000 attorney fee awarded to Brands International Corp., in the underlying suit.
