(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 4, 2010.)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad is fighting a request that it pay $23,000 in attorney fees and court costs for former company president Kevin Schieffer.
The DM&E took Schieffer to court in a dispute over severance pay and benefits. A judge ruled in June that he doesn’t have jurisdiction and granted Schieffer’s request to dismiss the lawsuit.
The DM&E says Schieffer can’t ask a judge to award him attorney fees for a case in which the court doesn’t have jurisdiction.
Schieffer left as DM&E president after Canadian Pacific Railway bought the company. He demanded arbitration over what he said was a $4 million miscalculation in his severance package.