Reasonable Hotel Expenses Might Have Played A Factor.
In Pendola Family Trust Partnership v. Pan Pacific (Pine Creek), L.P., Case No. C074300 (3d Dist. July 29, 2015) (unpublished), plaintiffs appealed a denial of a motion to tax costs against prevailing defendants of these items: (1) pro hac vice motion expenses; (2) travel expenses to certain Sacramento depositions; and (3) mediator fees/mediation expenses by the other side. The appellate court, as did the lower court, found that these were properly awarded as “reasonably necessary” routine costs under the discretionary authority of CCP § 1032(b). Although we do not pretend to be oracles, it did not hurt that the hotel expenses involved charges for staying over at Embassy Suites.