The Notice Of Appeal Only Attached The Merits Judgment, Which No Mention Of Fees.
Myers v. Quality Care Home, Inc., Case No. C101659 (3d Dist. Aug. 20, 2025) (unpublished) involved a situation we have seen many times. Defendant was hit with a $78,000 wage/hour fee award after a more minor unpaid wage judgment was entered against an employer. The judgment made no mention of fees, and defendant only appealed the merits judgment. The appellate panel in Myers refused to entertain a challenge to the fees award because defendant failed to independently appeal the postjudgment order. As we have said many times before, separately appeal any fees order, even if you think it might be subsumed in the merits judgment (which it often is not).