Opinion ID: 874387
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Heading: Neither party is entitled to attorney fees or costs.

Text: Both parties have requested attorney fees on appeal pursuant to I.C. § 12-117. Applicants are not entitled to attorney fees under this provision because they are neither the prevailing party on appeal nor below. Rincover v. State, Dep't of Fin., Sec. Bureau, 132 Idaho 547, 550-51, 976 P.2d 473, 476-77 (1999). The district court declined to award attorney fees to the County because it did not find that Applicants' petition for judicial review was brought without a reasonable basis in fact or law. Although we have not accepted the positions advanced by Applicants on appeal, we hold that this appeal was not pursued frivolously or unreasonably. Thus, we decline to award attorney fees to the County on appeal. See e.g. Ada County Highway Dist. v. Total Success Inv., LLC, 145 Idaho 360, 372-73, 179 P.3d 323, 335-36 (2008).