Cases: Landlord/Tenant – Page 8

Landlord/Tenant: Vexatious Litigant Hit With $176,417 In Fees And Costs Under Retaliatory Eviction Fee-Shifting Provision

October 2, 2010

First District, Division 3 Grants Fees Under CC § 1942.5(g). Ouch—the sting of attorney’s fees can be harsh. Plaintiff, declared to be a vexatious litigant in a case involving a retaliatory eviction cross-claim, discovered that lesson the hard way. King v. Nielsen, Case Nos. A124067/A124801 (1st Dist., Div. 3 Sept. 29, 2010) (unpublished) […]

Landlord/Tenant: Substantial Attorney Fee Award Of $506,056.95 Goes POOF!

Second District, Division 1 Reverses Unlawful Detainer Judgment and Fee Award Based on Finding Five U.D. Notices Insufficient in Nature. The POOF! principle is one that we coined for what generally happens when a merits judgment is reversed—that reversal usually means that a related attorney’s fees award also gets reversed. Aside from