15 (1963) (dismissing writ of certiorari as improvidently granted where a controversy “primarily implicate[d] questions of [state] law and present[ed] no federal question of substance”). A. Petitioners failed to properly file their motion for appellate fees in the trial court after the entry of final judgment and forfeited any ability to seek those fees. Contrary to Petitioners’ claim that the Arkansas Supreme Court flouted federal law in denying their motion for attorney’s fees, Petitioners forfeited their ability to seek appellate fees by failing to follow Arkansas’s procedural rules. ARK. R. CIV. P. 54(e)(2)—which Petitioners concede governs motions for attorney’s fees—provides that such motions must be filed “no later than 14 days after the entry of judgment[.]” The Arkansas Supreme Court has held that “[a] final judgment under ARK. R. CIV. P. 54(a) is ‘one that dismisses the parties, discharges them from the action, or concludes their rights to the subject matter in controversy.’ ” Jones v. Flowers, 283 S.W.3d 551, 554 (Ark. 2008) (quoting Looney v. Looney, 986 S.W.2d 858, 861 (Ark. 1999)) (reversing the trial court’s denial of attorney’s fees under 42 U.S.C. 1988 after remand from this Court). Rule 54(e)’s fourteen-day time period begins to run “upon an entry of judgment that finally concludes the controversy for which attorney’s fees are sought.” Id. at 555. “Only upon [a] final resolution of the respective parties’ rights [is] a motion for attorney’s fees appropriate.” Id.

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