FEHA attorney fees case 364

Premises Liability is another area of  San Diego Personal Injury Law.

Chavez v City of Los Angeles 47 Cal.4th 970 (2010) Kennard 7-0.  FEHA attorney fees case filed as unlimited civil matter, but recovery was “less than half the $25K jurisdictional limit for a limited civil case.”  Plaintiff requested $871K attorney fees.  CCP § 1033(a) gives court discretion to deny attorney fees.  Trial court must give “due consideration to policies and objectives of the FEHA in general and its attorney fee provision in particular.  But in view of “Plaintiff’s minimal success and grossly inflated attorney fee request,” trial court had discretion to deny attorneyfees totally.  San Diego personal injury attorney

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