Supreme Court of California

For purposes of the fee-shifting provision of Labor Code section 98.2, a party seeking review of a labor commissioner's award is successful on appeal when the resulting judgment is more favorable to that party than was the administrative award being appealed (holding to be applied prospectively).

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/02/2002
• Published 12/03/2002

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Timothy L. Smith, in pro. per., Law Offices of Ellen Lake, Ellen Lake, Oakland;  Norland & Kays and Gregg L. Kays, San Jose, for Plaintiff and Appellant., Miles E. Locker, San Francisco, for the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Michael Gaitley, San Francisco, and David Pogrel, for The Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Cynthia Rice, Santa Rosa, and Michael Meuter, for California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Genevie Gallegaos, for La Raza Centro Legal, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Marci Seville, and Donna Ryu, Berkeley, for Women's Employment Rights Clinic as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Helen Yu-chuin Chen, San Francisco, for Asian Law Caucus as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Margaret Stevenson and Ellen Braff Fuajardo for East Palo Alto Community Law Project as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Marcela Siderman for Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Gus T. May, Marc L. Bender, Los Angeles, and Cassandra Stubbs, for Bet Tzedek Legal Services as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Curiale Dellaverson Hirschfield Kelly & Kraemer, Curiale Dellaverson Hirschfield Kraemer & Sloan, Stephen J. Hirschfield, Felicia R. Reid and Donna M. Rutter, San Francisco, for Defendant and Appellant.,  Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Paul Grossman, George W. Abele and Deborah S. Weiser, Los Angeles, for California Employment Law Council as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, William L. Cole, Lawrence A. Michaels, Kevin E. Gaut, Los Angeles;  Law Office of Steven Drapkin and Steven Drapkin, Los Angeles, for the Employers Group as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.