California Court of Appeal

In the City of Santa Monica's civil action against a landlord, claiming that he sexually harassed a tenant, entered tenants' units without permission, and rented uninhabitable space as living quarters, trial court's judgment is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) defendant's challenge to the admission of evidence of prior acts is rejected as waived; 2) sexual harassment can be a business practice as defendant's harassment of his tenant was made possible by the parties' commercial relationship and occurred only during business-related encounters; and 3) an award of attorney's fees was improper as plaintiff sued only under the UCL, which does not authorize an award of attorney fees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/14/2010
• Published 07/14/2010

Judges

• CHANEY, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patrick L. Lund, Marsha Jones Moutrie