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The Arkansas Department of Transportation asked the state Supreme Court to erase $18 million in attorney fees awarded in a lawsuit that successfully challenged the agency's spending on two major road construction projects, arguing in a brief filed Friday that "winning an illegal exaction lawsuit should not be the equivalent of winning the lottery for the taxpayers' lawyers."

The Arkansas Department of Transportation asked the state Supreme Court to erase $18 million in attorney fees awarded in a lawsuit that successfully challenged the agency's spending on two major road construction projects, arguing in a brief filed Friday that "winning an illegal exaction lawsuit should not be the equivalent of winning the lottery for the taxpayers' lawyers."