Cases: Employment

Employment: $7,475 In Fees Awarded To Plaintiff Employee For Recovering $3,289.90 In Wage/Hour Dispute

Cases: Employment, Cases: Reasonableness of Fees

  Plaintiff’s Request for Over $58,500 In Fees Is Firmly Rejected.      Labor Code section 218.5 holds that a prevailing party in an action for nonpayment of wages, fringe benefits, or health/welfare/pension fund contributions must be awarded reasonable attorney’s fees. It was that pesky word “reasonable” that resulted in a much diminished fee award than […]

Civil Rights And Prior Decision Update: Silguero Court Still Denies Fee Recovery Under A Petition For Rehearing

Cases: Civil Rights, Cases: Employment

FEHA-Based Fees Not Allowable to Other Defendants.      In our July 30, 2010 post, we reviewed Silguero v. Creteguard, Inc., Case No. B215179 (2d Dist., Div. 1 July 30, 2010) (certified for partial publication), where a fee award went POOF! upon reversal of a demurrer sustained in favor of certain defendants.      However, apparently other

Poof! On Appeal, Employer Is No Longer the Prevailing Party, and Award of $23,532.50 in Fees and Costs is Vacated

Cases: Employment, Cases: POOF!

Second District, Division One Holds that a Tameny Claim Exists When Subsequent Employer Honors Putatively Invalid Restraint on Competition Entered Into Between Employee and Previous Employer – and Reversal of Attorney’s Fee Award Follows.      A Tameny claim is a claim for wrongful termination in violation of public policy, under Tameny v. Atlantic Richfield Co.,

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