Opinion ID: 2639041
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Issue 1: Is the law of the case doctrine determinative?

Text: As a threshold matter, the Company essentially argues that the issue of the expense attribution to all members had been decided against the withdrawing members in this case years ago. They specifically reference the district court's journal entry re plaintiffs' motion to enforce judgments filed June 30, 2000. More important, according to the Company, the withdrawing members' failure to appeal that journal entry within 30 days of its filing in accordance with K.S.A. 60-2103(a) was a waiver of that right. As a result, the Company argues the findings and conclusions contained in that journal entry became the law of the case (citing Martinez v. Roscoe, 100 F.3d 121 [10th Cir. 1996]). The withdrawing members respond that the June 30, 2000, journal entry simply memorialized findings and conclusions the district court had made in a letter to counsel in February 8, 1999, while the case was on appeal with this court. Consequently, according to the withdrawing members, that journal entry was rendered moot by this court's eventual decision in Investcorp I. We begin by examining the journal entry which states in relevant part: