Cases: Costs

Appealability, Costs: Appeal Of Post-Judgment Order Striking Request For Costs Dismissed On Appeal Against Plaintiffs Who Did Obtain A Merits Reversal Of A Demurrer To A Brown Act Mandate Petition

Cases: Appealability, Cases: Costs

Reason For The Dismissal Was Plaintiffs’ Failure To Adequate Raise Or Brief The Issue.              In New Livable California v. Assn of Bay Area Governments, Case No. A159235 (1st Dist., Div. 3 Dec. 18, 2020 December 18, 2020, published on Jan. 6, 2021), plaintiffs lost a Brown Act writ of mandate petition on a demurrer, […]

Costs, Private Attorney General, Reasonableness Of Fees: Petitioners, In Long-Standing San Francisco Bicycle Plan CEQA Challenges, Who Achieved Limited Success, Had Costs Properly Stricken And Recovered 50% Less Than Requested Once The Lodestar Was Reduc

Cases: Costs, Cases: Private Attorney General (CCP 1021.5), Cases: Reasonableness of Fees

Bottom Line In This Case, Limited Success Will Impact Cost and Fee Recovery, Even In Public Interest Cases.             We have seen that costs and attorney’s fees in many public interest cases, including those under the private attorney general statute, can be quite large.  However, one should keep in mind that the cost and fee

Allocation, Costs: No Abuse Of Discretion Where Trial Court Refused To Tax Costs Among Multiple Defendants Who Settled Out Of The Case Before Trial

Cases: Allocation, Cases: Costs

Costs Incurred By Plaintiffs In Relation To Other Defendants Were Directly Relevant To Case Against Appealing Defendant And Reasonably Necessary To The Litigation.             In Booker v. Imerys Talc America, Case No. A153995 (1st Dist., Div. 3 December 11, 2020) (unpublished), wife and heirs of decedent continued mesothelioma-related litigation against seven defendants after his death. 

Arbitration, Civil Rights, Costs: 4/3 DCA Reverses Fees Awarded To FEHA Defendants For Motion To Compel Arbitration Efforts And Costs Awarded For Prevailing In The Arbitration

Cases: Arbitration, Cases: Civil Rights, Cases: Costs

Plaintiffs Achieved Partial Success In Their Opposition To Defendants’ Motion To Compel Arbitration, And Fees/Costs Are Not Awardable To Prevailing FEHA Defendant, Pursuant To Gov. Code § 12965(b), Unless The Court Finds Action Was Frivolous, Unreasonable, Or Groundless When Brought, Or The Plaintiff Continued To Litigate After It Became Clearly So.             In Humphrey v.

Costs: $11,288 Costs Award To County For Outside Counsel/Paralegal’s Administrative Record Work Was No Abuse Of Discretion

Cases: Costs

If Reasonable And Necessary, CCP § 1094.6(c) Allows For Recovery Of These Costs.             In McMillan v. County of Siskiyou, Case No. C087960 (3d Dist. Dec. 9, 2020) (unpublished), plaintiffs wanted a hearing before the County’s Planning Commission to determine whether they had vested rights to a surface mine on a 1,741-acre property.  They got

Costs, SLAPP: 5/5 DCA Affirms Trial Court’s Award Of Attorney’s Fees Against Unsuccessful SLAPPing Defendants And Granting Of Dismissed Plaintiffs’ Motion To Strike/Tax Defendants’ Request For Costs

Cases: Costs, Cases: SLAPP

Defendants’ Anti-SLAPP Motion Was Not Based On Protected Activities And Determined Frivolous, And Order On Costs Was Not Appealable Under The One Final Judgment Rule.             In Lang v. Petaluma Hills Farm, Case No. A156614 (5th Dist., Div. 5 November 20, 2020) (unpublished), several neighbors sued other neighbors – claiming defendant neighbors were conducting

Costs, Discovery: D.C. Circuit Decides That Only Electronic File Conversion Costs, Not Hosting, Organizing, Or Bates Stamping Expenses, Can Be Recovered By Federal Court Winners

Cases: Costs, Cases: Discovery

Interpretation Of The Scope of 28 U.S.C. § 1920 Was At Issue.             28 U.S.C. § 1920 provides:  “A judge or clerk of any court of the United States may tax as costs the following:  (1) Fees of the clerk and marshal; (2) Fees for printed or electronically recorded transcripts necessarily obtained for use in

Costs: $27,000 In Third Party Litigation Company Filing Expenses, Deposition Transcripts/Videos, Trial Binders, And Deposition Travel Expenses Were Properly Awarded

Cases: Costs

Losing Plaintiff Could Not Overcome Abuse Of Discretion Standard.             Code of Civil Procedure sections 1032, 1033, and 1033.5 are the main statutory provisions which govern the award of “routine” costs to a prevailing party in California state court litigation.  This is the way it works for the prevailing party:  there are specific categories of

Employment, Multipliers, Costs: Employee Obtaining Partial Success In FEHA Case Properly Awarded $695,000 In Attorney’s Fees, No Expert Witness Fees, And Some Routine Costs

Cases: Costs, Cases: Employment, Cases: Multipliers

Plaintiff’s $2 Million Request, Inclusive Of A 2.0 Positive Multiplier, Did Not Gain Traction.             Partial success and high hourly rates can often lead to reductions and rejection of a multiplier in contingency-driven cases under FEHA.  That is what basically occurred in Do v. Raytheon Co., Case No. B293950 (2d Dist., Div. 4 Oct 27,

Costs: $9,816.78 In Costs For 22 Medical Subpoenas Was Reasonably Granted To The Defendant, Given The Position It Took Through Affirmative Defenses.

Cases: Costs

Premature Filing Of Costs Memorandum Was No Problem Given A Lack Of Prejudice.             In Lowry v. Port San Luis Harbor Dist., Case Nos. B300072/B302209 (2d Dist., Div. 6 Oct. 22, 2020) (published), defendant was allowed a routine costs award of $9,816.78 for service of 22 medical subpoenas in a case where the defendant alleged

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