Cases: Civil Rights

Breaking News: Supreme Court Denies Review of Harman v. City and County of San Francisco

Cases: Civil Rights, Cases: Lodestar, Cases: Reasonableness of Fees, Cases: Standard of Review, Cases: Substantiation of Reasonableness of Fees

Denial of Writ of Certiorari Leaves Court of Appeal Opinion – and Fee Award — Intact.             On June 23, 2008, the Supreme Court of the United States denied the petition for writ of certiorari for San Francisco v Harman, Allen.  —S.Ct.—, 2008 WL 1955817 (U.S. Cal.), 76 USLW 3611.       […]

CITY OF FRESNO SETTLES CASE INVOLVING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT VIOLATIONS IN PROPERTY SWEEPS OF HOMELESS, PAYING $850,000 IN FEES AND COSTS TO ATTORNEYS FOR HOMELESS

Cases: Civil Rights

Settlement Follows on the Heels of a Preliminary Injunction and Denial of Defendants’ Summary Judgment Motions.             In Fall 2006, several homeless persons, individually and on a behalf of a class of all homeless people living in the City of Fresno whose personal belongings were unlawfully taken and destroyed in sweeps, raids,

ON APPEAL, REVIEWING COURT INDEPENDENTLY REVIEWS STATUTORY ENTITLEMENT TO FEES—AND STILL DETERMINES THE TRIAL JUDGE PROPERLY DENIED FEES TO A PREVAILING PARTY

Cases: Civil Rights, Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes, Cases: Standard of Review

Sixth District Correctly Sets Forth Standard of Review and Still Determines Prevailing Party Not Entitled to Fee Recovery Under the Mobile Residency Law, Civil Code section 1717, or the Unruh Act.             In Ideal Homes v. DenHoy, Case No. H031071 (6th Dist. May 27, 2008) (unpublished), the Sixth District reminded us that

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