California Court of Appeal

In suit alleging physical and verbal sexual harassment on the job where parties settled on the eve of trial, award of attorney's fees to plaintiff that included a multiplier to the lodestar figure is reversed where the trial court improperly: 1) presupposed it was required to apply a fee multiplier in this case; and 2) considered out-of-town counsel's higher rates as the basis for a fee multiplier without an adequate evidentiary showing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/02/2007
• Published 10/02/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Liebert Cassidy Whitmore,Shelline K. Bennett and Desiree Reed-Francois, Fresno, for Defendant and Appellant., Morrison & Foerster LLP, Arturo J. Gonzalez, Eric A. Tate and Samantha P. Goodman, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent.