California Court of Appeal

Trial court's denial of defendants' requests for attorney's fees, brought after they successfully defended against a claim of civil rights violations involving a ballot measure relating to certain political activities of labor organizations, is affirmed where: 1) defendants were not entitled to attorney's fees pursuant to Code of Civil Proc. section 1038 because this action did not qualify as a "civil proceeding under the California Tort Claims Act" for purposes of the statute; and 2) the trial court did not err in denying defendants' second motion for fees under the federal Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/15/2010
• Published 01/15/2010

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Counsel for Appellants:  Littler Mendelson, John J. Skonberg, Richard H. Rahm, Joshua D. Kienitz;  Department of Personnel Administration, State of California, K. William Curtis, Warren C. Stracener, Paul M. Starkey, Jennifer M. Garten, Ronald R. Pearson.


• For Appellees:
  
• Counsel for Respondents:  Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, Gregg McLean Adam, Laurie J. Hepler;  California Correctional Peace Officers' Association, Daniel M. Lindsay.