18 Petitioners failed to comply with Arkansas procedural rules and timely file their motion for appellate fees in the trial court. Petitioners thus forfeited their ability to seek those fees under state law, and the Arkansas Supreme Court was within its authority to deny Petitioners’ motion without comment. See Norman, 66 S.W.3d at 640. Because Petitioners’ procedural default is an adequate and independent state law ground for the denial of Petitioners’ fee motion, this Court lacks jurisdiction to review that denial. The Petition should be denied. B. If Petitioners were required to file their motion for appellate fees in the Arkansas Supreme Court, they did so nineteen days late and forfeited any ability to seek those fees. Petitioners have taken the position before this Court—contrary to what they argued below—that their motion for appellate fees was properly filed in the Arkansas Supreme Court. Pet. at 13. Petitioners assert that Rule 54(e), which provides that a motion for attorney’s fees must be filed “no later than 14 days after the entry of judgment” (ARK. R. CIV. P. 54(e)(2)), governs the timing of their appellate fee motion. Pet. at 13. Petitioners argue that their motion was timely because it was filed on November 21, 2017, fourteen days after the Arkansas Supreme Court’s mandate issued. Id. But Petitioners are mistaken. Assuming Petitioners were required to file their appellate fees motion in the Arkansas Supreme Court in the time period provided

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