Supreme Court of California

The superior court may assess attorney's fees, under Labor Code section 98.2(c), against an employer who unsuccessfully appeals an administrative order to pay wages, even where the employee could not afford counsel and was represented without charge by the Labor Commissioner.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/08/2002
• Published 07/08/2002

Judges

• MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  William A. Reich, Ventura, for Plaintiff and Appellant., Asian Law Caucus, Hina B. Shah;  California Rural Legal Assistance, Cynthia L. Rice, Santa Rosa;  The Employment Law Center, Michael T. Gaitley, San Francisco, David P. Pogrel;  La Raza Centro Legal and Virginia Villegas as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lascher & Lascher, Gabriele Mezger Lashly;  Law Offices of James L. Spencer and James L. Spencer, Ventura, for Defendant and Respondent., Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Paul Grossman, Leslie L. Abbott and Patricia M. Berry, Los Angeles, for California Employment Law Council as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.