( April 2, 2025, 2:20 PM EDT) -- DENVER — The parties that object to the more than $17.3 million in attorney fees awarded as part of a $52 million oil and gas royalty settlement on April 1 filed individual briefs in the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, with one contending that it is class counsel who “dragged this case out, imposing years of delay on the Class, merely to obtain and keep a large attorney’s fees,” and the other party arguing that the class should not be made to pay for class counsel’s “malpractice.”...