Cases: Multipliers

Civil Rights, Lodestar, Multiplier, Reasonableness Of Fees:  Trial Judge Properly Cut Lodestar By 25%, And Applied A 1.5 Positive Multiplier, For Total Fee Award Of $752,925.92 In Case Garnering Compensatory Damages Of $625,000 To Plaintiff

Cases: Civil Rights, Cases: Lodestar, Cases: Multipliers, Cases: Reasonableness of Fees

Trial Judge Also Properly Awarded $15,000 Supplemental Fees For Posttrial Work.             For those of you not practicing in the employment/FEHA area, civil rights plaintiffs in disability/harassment/failure to accommodate cases are entitled to recovery of attorney’s fees under a pro-plaintiff statutory fee-shifting provision to be construed liberally to allow plaintiff full compensation for prevailing in […]

Class Action, Common Fund, Employment, Lodestar, Multiplier:  N.D. Cal. District Judge Ilston Awards Wage/Hour Class Action Counsel $15,200,002.90 In Hybrid Statutory Fee/Common Fund Case Against Wal-Mart

Cases: Class Actions, Cases: Common Fund, Cases: Employment, Cases: Lodestar, Cases: Multipliers

District Judge Confronts Multiple Issues In Reaching Fee Award.             U.S. District Judge Susan Ilston in Ridgeway v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Case No. 08-cv-05221-SI (N.D. Cal. Sept. 14, 2017 Doc. #606) confronted numerous issues in deciding the appropriate award to class counsel in a truck driver employee class action case against Wal-Mart for wage hour

Multipliers/Reasonableness Of Fees:  $2.5 Million Fee Award To Class Counsel Was No Abuse Of Discretion

Cases: Multipliers, Cases: Reasonableness of Fees

    Class Counsel Appealed, But To No Avail Except On Two Minor Issues.               Woosley v. State of California, Case No. B261454 (2d Dist., Div. 5 April 24, 2017) (unpublished) was a dispute which spanned close to 40 years, with the parties then hassling over attorney’s fees over the last dozen years.  (Kinda

Employment, Lodestar, Multiplier, Record: Plaintiff Employee Obtaining $43,654.50 On Unpaid Commission Claim Awarded $58,341.50 Under Labor Code Fee-Shifting Statute

Cases: Employment, Cases: Lodestar, Cases: Multipliers, Cases: Record

  Plaintiff Requested $212,287.50 (Inclusive Of A 1.5 Multiplier), But Lower Court’s Award Of A Reasonable Lodestar Was No Abuse of Discretion.      Plaintiff employee eventually obtained recovery of $43,654.50 in an unpaid commission dispute even though he at one point was willing to accept $75,000 to settle which included a $30,000 component to reimburse

Civil Rights: $870,720.63 Fee Award To Winning FEHA Plaintiff Affirmed On Appeal Where $749,999 In Compensatory Damages Awarded By Jury

Cases: Civil Rights, Cases: Multipliers

  1.25 Multiplier Sustained; Reversal of One Intertwined Retaliation Claim Did Not Require Reconsideration Of Fee Award. William A. Offutt, winner of adding machine operators contest, 1937.  Library of Congress.     In Warehime v. Farmers Ins. Exchange, Case No. F068843 (5th Dist. Dec. 15, 2015) (unpublished), plaintiff brought a four-count FEHA inspired suit against Farmers,

In The News . . . . Lead Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Receive Close To $12 Million In Student Athlete Likeness Class Action Against Electronic Arts and NCAA

Cases: Multipliers, In The News

                         Dartmouth Football Team, 1901. 1.7 Multiplier Awarded By N.D. Cal. District Judge.       On December 10, 2015, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilkens of the Northern District of California awarded lead plaintiffs’ counsel almost $12 million in fees for work leading to the settlements in a class action case brought by student athletes

Private Attorney General: $250,000 Fee Award To Prevailing Plaintiff Affirmed, But Remanded For Redetermination Of Whether Negative Multiplier Was Warranted For Only “Partial Success” And Whether “Fees On Fees” Cut Justified

Cases: Multipliers, Cases: Private Attorney General (CCP 1021.5)

  Need For More Expensive Out-Of-Venue Counsel Was Well Justified By Fee Claimant.      In Habitat and Watershed Caretakers v. City of Santa Cruz, Case No. H040762 (6th Dist. Oct. 6, 2015) (unpublished), both plaintiff and City appealed a lower court’s decision awarding plaintiff fees of about $250,000 (out of a requested $486,800 on the

Civil Rights, Multiplier, Reasonableness Of Fees: Multiplier Determination Remanded But Bulk Of Fee Determinations Sustained In Longstanding Civil Rights Case

Cases: Civil Rights, Cases: Multipliers, Cases: Reasonableness of Fees

  Out-of-Town Counsel Use/High Hourly Rates And Positive Multiplier Enhancement Dominate Discussion In Lengthy Unpublished Decision From Riverside DCA.      Although this case should be of interest to civil rights practitioners on the merits (discussing various evidentiary and instructional error issues), Ruelas v. Harper, Case No. E051961 (4th Dist., Div. 2 Oct. 6, 2015) (unpublished)

Reasonableness Of Fees/Multiplier: Appellate Court Awards Significant Fees In Labor Case, Providing A Primer On How To Support A Fee Petition, Defend Against Attacks, and Differentiate Federal Fee Petition Differences

Cases: Multipliers, Cases: Reasonableness of Fees

  However, Not All Is Lost … Plaintiffs Only Get About 23% Of Requested Fee Amount, Inclusive Of 1.25 Multiplier.     We have to say that all readers interested in fee issues need to read Britto v. Zep, Inc., Case No. A141870 (1st Dist., Div. 5 Sept. 25, 2015) (unpublished)—it gives a great roadmap on

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