California Court of Appeal

In plaintiffs' construction defect case against numerous defendants including general contractor, district court's award of attorneys' fees and costs to plaintiffs is reversed and remanded where, given the apparent arbitrariness of the awards, the court is unable to find a combination of numbers adding up to the precise cost awarded and there is no reasonable connection between the lodestar amount and the trial court's award of attorneys' fees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/06/2009
• Published 10/06/2009

Judges

• RUSHING, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel J. Smith, Bowman & Brooke, John C. Gorman, Charles J. Stiegler, Gorman & Miller, for Plaintiffs and Appellants John C. Gorman et al.


• For Appellees:
  
• Archer Norris, W. Eric Blumhardt, William H. Staples, William L. Coggshell, Selman Breitman, Lincoln V. Horton, Elaine F. Harwell, for Defendants and Respondents Tassajara Development Corporation, et al.