Cases: Celebrities

Celebrities/Prevailing Party/Special Fee Shifting Statute: Plaintiff’s Dismissal Of Complaint Without Prejudice Due to Defense Standing Challenge Triggers Fee Exposure Under Cal Right To Publicity Statute

Cases: Celebrities, Cases: Prevailing Party, Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

  “Reverse” Unity of Interest Argument Did Not Dictate Different Result.      Civil Code section 3344.1, California’s right to publicity statute, does contain a mandatory fee-shifting clause in favor of the prevailing party, with attorney’s fees and costs being the carrot for such a party. The next case involves an interesting procedural situation in a […]

In The News . . . . Kim Kardashian’s Attorney In Kris Humphries Divorce Says Her Firm Already Has Spent $250,000 On The Case

Cases: Celebrities, In The News

  Divorce “Boondoggle” Likely Will Not End Until Sometime in 2013.      As reported today by Timothy Mangan in the “People” section of The Orange County Register, Kim Kardashian’s attorney told a judge in the Kris Humphries divorce action that her firm had already spent $250,000 on the case in the wake of Mr. Humphries’

Celebrities/Special Fee Shifting Statute: Orthopedic Surgeon Did Prevail In Commercial Name Misappropriation Case So That $320,000 Fee Award Was Proper

Cases: Celebrities, Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

  Civil Code Section 3344(a) Does Not Require Fees to Bear a Percentage to Ultimate Recovery.      Well, readers, we are winding to a New Year, but we will blog on a special-fee shifting statute applicable in commercial name misappropriation cases–Civil Code section 3344(a), which has a mandatory fee-shifting provision. The next case we discuss

Family Law: Second District, Division Two Upholds Fee Award in Family Court Involving TV Costar of Two and a Half Men

Cases: Celebrities, Cases: Family Law, Cases: Standard of Review

  Who “Won” is Irrelevant Here.      Often, the Court’s retelling of the facts gives us more than an inkling of the ending.      Here, the statement of facts begins: ”Jon and Sarah have both had acting careers, though their career paths diverged widely.  As a costar in the TV show Two and a Half

In The News . . . . Ahhrnold Does Not Want To Pay Maria’s Divorce Fees, San Bernardino Director Wins Fees In Discrimination Suit, and New Study Shows That Barely Half of Attorney’s Fees In Forest Service Cases Go To Environmental Groups

Cases: Celebrities, In The News

  Schwarzenegger-Shriver Divorce Heats Up.      In a July 21, 2011 post by Jill Stewart at laweekly.com, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in recently filed dissolution papers, has balked at paying any divorce attorney’s fees to Maria Shriver. His attorney indicated that both sides should pay for their own attorney’s fees in the pending dissolution action. San Bernardino

In The News . . . . Mel Gibson Asked To Reimburse A Lot Of Oksana’s Fees And City Of Laguna Wood Hit With Substantial Fee/Expert Expense Award In Eminent Domain Case

Cases: Celebrities, Cases: Eminent Domain, In The News

Lawyers Requesting Over $1.5 Million More in Gibson Dissolution Proceeding.      As reported in a January 27, 2011 post by the TMZ staff, Oksana Grigorieva’s lawyers are asking Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon–the same judge who heard the McCourt case–to order Mel Gibson to pay substantial attorney’s fees on top of $500,000

Celebrities: Lucasfilm Tentatively Ordered To Pay Nearly $1.3 Million In Attorney’s Fees To Winning Lawyers In Pregnancy Discrimination Case

Cases: Celebrities

Plaintiff Had Won $113,830 In Compensatory Damages From a Jury Earlier.      As reported by Gary Klien and Erin Sherbert in respective January 13, 2011 posts of the Marin Independent Journal and SF Weekly, Marin County Superior Court Judge Lynn O’Malley Taylor tentatively ruled on Thursday, January 13 that Lucasfilm Ltd. should pay nearly $1.3

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