Author name: Marc Alexander

SLAPP: SLAPP Winner’s Trial Court Win Of $12,270 Reversed Because Plaintiff Proffered Enough Evidence To Survive SLAPP Motion

Cases: POOF!, Cases: SLAPP

  Backdrop Was Diane Harkey’s Defamation Lawsuit Against State Board of Equalization Candidate After Her Exoneration In Alleged Fraud Charges For Her Husband’s Activities With Point Center Financial.     The next post stems from a State Board of Equalization candidate race in which plaintiff, one of the candidates, allegedly made slanderous statements about Diane Harkey, […]

Reasonableness Of Fees: FEHA Plaintiff Prevailing Party To The Tune Of $5,000 Garners $10,000 More In Attorney’s Fees

Cases: Reasonableness of Fees

  Trial and Appellate Court Rebuffed Plaintiff’s Request For $153,525 In Fees.     Well, plaintiff won a FEHA claim—but had very limited success—in a tenant dispute with landlord and apartment managers over unlawful housing discrimination/retaliation for reporting the alleged discrimination.  A jury awarded plaintiff $5,000, after the trial court directed verdicts on plaintiff’s claims for

In The News . . . . Class Counsel Garners $74 Million Fees/Costs In JP Morgan Chase Mortgage-Backed Securities Settlement And Eleventh Circuit Decision Holds Percentage-Of-Fund Analysis Applies To Claims-Made Class Action Settlement Regardless Of Actual P

Cases: Class Actions, Cases: Common Fund, In The News

  Class Counsel Asked For $100.8 Million In Fees/Expenses But Were Awarded “Only” $74 Million.     On December 4, 2015, a New York federal district judge awarded class counsel in the JP Morgan Chase mortgage-backed securities class action about $74 million in fees and costs based on a $388 million settlement.  This was less than

Construction/POOF!: Losing Subcontractor On Private Project Retention Payment Dispute, Who Won On Appeal, Entitled To Fee Recovery Under Civil Code Section 8818

Cases: Construction, Cases: POOF!

  Subcontractor Hit With $150,000 Fee Award Below, Gets A Reversal Of Fortune—Merits Reversal Of Retention Claim Meant Subcontractor Now Gets To Seek Fees For Being the Winner On Appeal!      Here you may see what’s very rare, The world turn’d upside down; A tree and castle in the air, A man walk on his

Special Fee Shifting Statute: Plaintiff Obtaining Postlitigation Production Of Documents Under California Public Records Act Was Entitled To Fee Recovery

Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

  $260,608 Fee Award Affirmed Despite Narrow Earlier Loss On Writ Petition.      California’s Public Record Act (CPRA), Government Code section 6259(c), has a fee shifting provision mandating attorney’s fees to be awarded to a prevailing party plaintiff in a CPRA case. (Fees can be awarded against plaintiff and in favor of the public agency

POOF!/Prevailing Party: Winning Party In “Botched” Sale Of Advertising Sign Dispute Sees $369,284 Fee/Costs Award Go Away With Reversal Of Certain Tort Claims

Cases: POOF!, Cases: Prevailing Party

  $20,000 “Botched” Sale Resulted In Lots Of Damages And Fees, With A “Re-do” Based Upon Partial Reversals of Compensatory and Punitive Awards.      You gotta love how appellate courts can summarize disputes. Take Young Electric Sign Co. v. PC Dixon 1, LLC, Case No. C072212 (3d Dist. Oct. 28, 2015) (unpublished), modified Nov. 30,

In The News . . . . T.V. Executive Consultant on Survivor Beats Back Claims That He Acted As Attorney Such That A Trial Looms Against Former Partner

In The News

  T.V. Executive Claims He Was “Stiffed” For $14 Million.     In Los Angeles County Superior Court, there is quite a battle going on between a T.V. executive and the Survivor mastermind’s former partner relating to compensation allegedly owed in connection with the T.V. Survivor series.     Briefly told, plaintiff T.V. executive sued the defendant

In The News . . . . Conrad Riggs’ Cloudbreak Entertainment Inc. Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy On Eve Of Layne Britton Trial

In The News

  Bankruptcy Filing Has Postponed Trial Until February 10, 2016.     We recently posted on the L.A. County Superior Court case where Layne Britton has sued Survivor co-creator Conrad Riggs and his business Cloudbreak Entertainment Inc. for $14 million in unpaid consulting fees, with Riggs losing the argument that the fees were incurred for legal

Equities, Homeowner Association, Prevailing Party: Fee Recovery Against Two Voluntarily Dismissing Plaintiffs, Where Other Plaintiffs Still Fighting, Was Abuse Of Discretion Under The Circumstances

Cases: Equity, Cases: Homeowner Associations, Cases: Prevailing Party

  $156,614.47 Fee Recovery Went POOF! On Appeal.     Wasserman v. Ketelhut, Case No. B258642 (2d Dist., Div. 6 Dec. 1, 2015) (unpublished) is an interesting common interest development case where multiple plaintiffs were fighting defendants over various CC&R governing document claims about defendants operating a vineyard which encroached on certain CID common areas.  (BLOG

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