A group of Penn State trustees was back in court Tuesday, fighting what their attorneys call, a “war,” with Penn State.

The trustees won their latest court battle against Penn State. They were seeking access to Freeh documents back in November. The court granted their request.

Now, the trustees are back in court, asking a judge to require the university to pay for their counsel fees. They argued Penn State forced its volunteer trustees to pursue litigation and in turn, called their efforts wasteful.

Since the court’s November ruling, trustee attorneys said two other board members have come forward seeking access to Freeh documents.

“The entire board is going to benefit,” Trustee Anthony Lubrano said. “But until we brought the action we brought, that information wasn’t available to the full board. We hope the court will consider that. It’s not fair that we bear the entire burden of this.”

Penn State attorneys argue the trustees always had access to these documents, but they didn’t agree to confidentiality.

“The argument that we refused confidentiality is just intellectually dishonest,” Lubrano said. “They handed us an agreement, there were some terms in that agreement that weren’t acceptable to us.”

University attorneys would not comment after Tuesday’s hearing.

The judge did not make an immediate ruling.