California Court of Appeal

A trial court may not award attorneys fees to losing party in civil rights case even if plaintiff only won a pyrrhic victory and it won most of the claims at trial under 42 U.S.C. section 1988.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/17/2001
• Published 01/17/2001

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Thomas E. Beck, Los Angeles, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
•  Franscell, Strickland, Roberts, & Lawrence, Tracy Strickland and S. Frank Harrell, Santa Ana, for Defendants and Respondents.