( March 16, 2026, 9:47 AM EDT) -- LAKE CHARLES, La. — A Louisiana appellate court affirmed attorney fees for the class counsel in a 20-year-old case over property boundaries, royalties and inverse condemnation but increased the fees by more than $16.7 million plus interest on the fee award running from 2017 until the full amount is paid and assessed costs of the appeal to the class representatives who sought to replace class counsel and challenged the fees, finding that the trial court abused its discretion when it failed to apply a multiplier or enhancement to the baseline lodestar fee....