Supreme Court of California

Under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16, subdivision (c), a court may award a victorious defendant under the anti-SLAPP statutes enhanced attorney's fees, in addition to the lodestar amount, to account for extra contingent risk.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/26/2001
• Published 02/26/2001

Judges

• MOSK, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Krause & Baskin, Marshall W. Krause and Lawrence A. Baskin, San Rafael, for Plaintiff and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Pamela Smith-Steward, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Margaret A. Rodda, Assistant Attorney General, Tyler B. Pon and Lisa A. Tillman, Deputy Attorneys General, for California Highway Patrol as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Casey Gwinn, City Attorney (San Diego), as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, Robin B Johansen and James C. Harrison, San Francisco, for Education Legal Alliance as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeremy L. Friedman;  Law Office of Richard M. Pearl and Richard M. Pearl, for Defendant and Respondent., Law Offices of Charles B. Renfrew, Charles B. Renfrew, San Francisco;  Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, Robert J. Nelson, San Francisco, Joshua P. Davis and Caryn Becker, San Francisco, for The Bar Association of San Francisco, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., The Sturdevant Law Firm, James C. Sturdevant, San Francisco, and Jack P. Hug for Consumer Attorneys of California, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Baller, Linda M. Dardarian, Debra A. Smith, Oakland; and Brad Seligman, Berkeley, for The Impact Fund, et al., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.,  Mark Goldowitz, Richmond, for California Anti-SLAPP Project, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.