California Court of Appeal

In a dispute over the amount of an attorney's fees award, trial court judgment is vacated and remanded where the court erred in failing to exercise its discretion to award attorney's fees incurred by plaintiff in opposing defendant's amicus brief in a related case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/04/2009
• Published 05/04/2009

Judges

• MIHARA, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• S. Chandler Visher, Law Offices of S. Chandler Visher, San Francisco, Matthew J. Witteman, Law Offices of Matthew J. Witteman, San Francisco, Bradley C. Arnold, Law Offices of Bradley C. Arnold, Laguna Beach, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ann Miller Ravel, County Counsel, Stephen H. Schmid, Deputy County Counsel, Aryn Paige Harris, Deputy County Counsel, Office of the County Counsel, for Defendant and Appellant.