Judge James C. Chalfant Orders Sheriff’s Department to Pay $173,000 in Fees in Public Records Act Lawsuit. In the August 31, 2011 online edition of the LA Times, Victoria Kim reports that Judge Chalfant has ordered the LA County Sheriff’s Department to pay nearly $173,000 in legal fees to the LA Times incurred in […]
District Court Judge Manuel Real Has “Big Problem” with Estimated Fees of $4.7 M. Writing in the August 29, 2011 online edition of The National Law Journal, Amanda Bronstad reports U.S. District Judge Manuel Real “put the brakes” on a $4.7 M fee request for plaintiffs’ firms in class action litigation. The litigation concerns
Fees in Bluetooth Class Action Settlement Must Be Scrutinized More Closely. Under the heading, “9th Circuit tosses Bluetooth settlement, citing attorney fees,” Amanda Bronstad, writing in the August 22, 2011 online edition of The National Law Journal, reports on the reversal and remand of a district court’s approval of a settlement providing for $100,000
Mattel Will Post Big Bond, But Not What MGA Wants. In this continuing saga where MGA won substantial compensatory/punitive damages and attorney’s fees/costs against Mattel, the current issue centers on the appellate undertaking to be posted by Mattel while it appeals to the Ninth Circuit. As recently reported by Amanda Bronstad in The
United States District Court of Nevada Follows Monty Python and the Holy Grail as Precedent In Monty Python and The Holy Grail, the bridge troll who is the keeper of the Bridge of Death is cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril when he fails to answer his own riddle. Boing Boing’s co-editor, Cory
Bratz Doll Maker Colliding with O’Melveny & Myers in L.A. State Court. As reported by Amanda Bronstad in an August 1, 2011 post at The National Law Journal, O’Melveny & Myers has sued its former client MGA Entertainment Inc., the eventual winner in a federal lawsuit against Mattel over the Bratz doll. O’Melveny
African American Farmers Class Action Settlement Fee Request. As posted by Mike Scarcella on August 9, 2011 at The Blog of Legal Times, class action lawyers representing a class of African American farmers in a loan discrimination suit against the Government are requesting $90.8 million in fees, the maximum allowed under the terms
Decision Came Down On August 5, 2011. If you follow our “In the News” category, you know we have been following the attorney’s fees requests made by MGA Entertainment Inc., maker of Bratz dolls, against Mattel Inc. after it won a trade secrets claim and successfully defended Mattel’s copyright infringement claim in federal
Guess Which Agency Suffered the Adverse Award . . . As reported by Kiran Khalid in an August 1, 2011 post at cnn.com, a Southern District of New York federal district judge awarded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) some attorney’s fees in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case. Well, you say, that
California Public Records Act Is Basis For The Request As reported by David Danelski in a July 21, 2011 post at the online version of The Press-Enterprise, this newspaper has filed court papers to recoup $46,684.04 in attorney’s fees and costs under the California Public Records Act. The newspaper successfully prevailed on a year-long
