Oracle lawyers’ $58 million fee award on the line in Rimini Street appeal

After 15 years of litigation, a copyright law battle between software support company Rimini Street RMNI and tech giant Oracle ORCL is headed back to a U.S. appeals court, as Rimini fights to overturn $58 million in legal fees awarded to Oracle in the case in September.

Rimini’s lawyers at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in their opening brief this week asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reject the fee award as unjustified.

A federal judge in Nevada awarded the…