Correction: The original version of this story did not list all of the claims that went to trial in the lawsuit. That has now been corrected.

In an order filed Tuesday, a Boulder District Court judge is requiring the plaintiffs in the Citizens for Quiet Skies v. Mile-Hi Skydiving lawsuit to pay nearly $48,000 in attorney’s fees to the Longmont company.

The attorney’s fees judgment comes in addition to $67,791 in damages Judge Judith LaBuda awarded to Mile-Hi earlier this month.

Citizens for Quiet Skies, along with Longmont and Boulder County residents unsuccessfully sued Mile-Hi in 2013, alleging the company’s skydiving plane noise was grounds for damages relating to physical and mental injuries, trespass, unjust enrichment, violation of the county’s noise ordinance, nuisance, negligence per se and negligence.

During the court proceedings, LaBuda in a summary judgment dismissed all but the nuisance and negligence claims and additionally dismissed the Citizens for Quiet Skies organization as a plaintiff.

Mile-Hi’s attorneys wrote in court filings that these claims were attempts by the plaintiffs to “make this case as difficult and expensive as possible.”

Citizens for Quiet Skies “owned no real or personal property and therefore had not incurred any damages,” LaBuda wrote in a summary of the lawsuit for the attorney’s fees judgment filed Tuesday. “The Court finds Citizens (for Quiet Skies’) claims for damages to be substantially frivolous and groundless and lacking any factual basis.”

LaBuda awarded Mile-Hi attorney’s fees for all of the dismissed claims except trespass, including all of the claims brought by the Citizens organization, agreeing with Mile-Hi that the plaintiffs in the case should not have filed groundless claims.

Additionally, LaBuda wrote that she took the “amount of controversy” associated with the suit into account when weighing the attorney’s fees decision. The lawsuit ended with a week-long trial in May that often drew a full crowd to the courthouse.

Mile-Hi’s attorneys, Anthony Leffert and Laura J. Ellenberger of Denver-based Robinson Waters & O’Dorisio, P.C., requested roughly $58,420 and LaBuda reduced the award to $47,984, giving the plaintiffs 30 days to pay.

Kimberly Gibbs, leader of Citizens for Quiet Skies and herself one of the individual plaintiffs in the case, said they are planning to file a motion to reconsider the amount and declined to comment further. The plaintiffs have also filed requests for the Colorado Court of Appeals to review LaBuda’s decision in the original lawsuit.

Russ Rizzo, spokesman for Mile-Hi owner Frank Casares, also declined to comment for this story.

Karen Antonacci: 303-684-5226, antonaccik@times-call.com or twitter.com/ktonacci