Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

Special Fee Shifting Statute: Defendant Mobilehome Residents, Losers On Their Cross-Complaint, Still Win MRL Attorney’s Fees When Plaintiff Dismisses Suit

Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

  Appellate Court Finds Statutory Mandate is Clear.      This one shows how appellate court will enforce statutes as written.      The Mobilehome Residency Law has an attorney’s fees and costs provision in Civil Code section 798.85, which requires an award of fees and costs to a prevailing party–with prevailing party defined as one who […]

Civil Rights/Special Fee Shifting Statute: Winner In Public Disclosure Bar False Claims Dispute Was Entitled To Fees Even Though There Was A Merits Dismissal And Did Prevail For Fee-Shifting Purposes

Cases: Civil Rights, Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

  First District, Division 4 Adds to State False Claims Act Fee Shifting Jurisprudence.      In our June 6, 2011 post, we explored the Second District, Division 6’s recent decision in County of Kern v. Jadwin, where Justice Yegan on behalf of a unanimous panel discussed the California False Claims Act (“CFCA”) (explained, along with

Special Fee Shifting Statute/Equity: Conditioning Leave To File Cross-Complaint Upon Payment Of $80,000 In Fees To Other Side Was No Go

Cases: Equity, Cases: Sanctions, Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

  Condition Was Too Much of a Sanction, Because Fees Not Causally Related to Cross-Complaint Filing.      In a convoluted fee dispute between former client and attorney, the trial court granted attorney leave to file a cross-complaint, but conditioned on attorney paying client some $80,000 to compensate her for attorney’s fees she incurred in preparing

Special Fee Shifting Statute/Governmental Abatement Action: $23,910.30 Fee Award To Winning City In Abatement Action Sustained On Appeal

Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

  Consent Judgment Was Silent On Issue, Allowing For Fee Award.      In City of Live Oak v. Oliveira, Case No. C063700 (3d Dist. July 15, 2011) (unpublished), City of Live Oak obtained civil penalties against three defendant trust properties in a nuisance abatement action. Even though the parties reached a consent judgment dealing with

Special Fee Shifting Statutes/In The News . . . . Beach Cities Collective Medical-Marijuana Dispensary Assessed With Attorney’s Fees Award To Go To Dana Point

Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes, In The News

  “Crack House” Costs Provision is the Fee Entitlement Basis; Amount of Fee Award is $138,067.10.      Well, California is well known as surfer paradise and also well known for its marijuana smoking population (residents who have or have not inhaled). In this vein, enjoy this one with us.      Beach Cities Collective, a medical-marijuana

Civil Rights/Specific Fee Shifting Statute: $50,820 Fee Award Against Plaintiff Bringing Frivolous False Claim Act Action Affirmed On Appeal

Cases: Civil Rights, Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

Second District, Division 6 Uses Analogous Federal Case Law in Reaching Result.      Under the False Claim Act (Gov Code, § 12650 et seq.), former section 12652(g)(9) provided that a trial court may award the prevailing defendant attorney’s fees if “the claim was clearly frivolous, clearly vexatious, or brought for purposes of harassment.” (Now, the

Civil Rights Two-Fer: Fee Awards Reversed And Affirmed In Two Different Contexts

Cases: Civil Rights, Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

  Disability Fee Reversal–Mundy v. RLA Properties, Case Nos. B224667/B225612 (2d Dist., Div. 1 June 23, 2011) (unpublished).      In this one, plaintiff in a Disabled Persons Act case, which has a fee-shifting provision in favor of the “prevailing party” (Civ. Code, § 55), lost his attempt to obtain statutory damages in a bench trial,

Special Fee Shifting Statute: Our Local Santa Ana Court Of Appeal Considers CCP § 1029.8 Relating To Fee Recovery Against Unlicensed Professionals

Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

  Maybe an Oxymoron, But Stay With Us To See What This Covers.      Our local Santa Ana appellate court recently considered a writ proceeding that involved Code of Civil Procedure section 1029.8. That particular provision allows someone to sue an unlicensed person causing injury to recover treble damages not exceeding $10,000 as well as

In The News . . . . Burbank City Council Will Pay Fees/Costs to Newspaper Obtaining Individual Bonus Payout Information

Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes, In The News

  California Public Records Act Provides for Fee Shifting.      Under our category “Specific Fee Shifting Statutes,” we have posted on the past about the California Public Records Act, which does allow litigants the opportunity to collect attorney’s fees and court costs if prevailing on a request to obtain a release of public documents.     

Specific Fee Shifting Statute/Allocation: Plaintiff Winning A Brown Act and Public Records Dispute Received $20,000 In Fees

Cases: Allocation, Cases: Special Fee Shifting Statutes

Request For $571,495.60 in Fees Rebuffed; Fifth District Gives Great Review of Fee Standards For Both Trial and Appellate Levels.      This next case is an interesting sequel to an on-going dispute by which a plaintiff prevailed against the Orosi Public Utility District for Brown Act and California Public Records Act violations, with the first

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