The appellate court’s recent decision in Ross v. California Coastal Commission, Case No. B228624 (2d Dist., Div. 5 Oct. 20, 2011) (unpublished) demonstrates our POOF! principle in convincing fashion. There, the appellate court reversed a mandate petition in part which was favorable to plaintiffs. That reversal meant that the $260,000 fees award to plaintiffs under California’s private attorney general statute, too, went POOF! (Gillan v. City of San Marino, 147 Cal.App.4th 1033, 1053 (2007).)