United States Ninth Circuit

The district court's order awarding attorneys' fees to a prevailing plaintiff under California's Fair Employment and Housing Act is: 1) affirmed in part, where the district court did not abuse its discretion in awarding the prevailing plaintiff $697,971.80 in attorneys' fees where the jury awarded her only $27,280 in damages because, although there was a clear disparity between the damages recovered and the fees awarded, California law did not require the district court to reduce the disparity; but 2) vacated and remanded in part, where the fee award to a paralegal was based upon inadmissible hearsay.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/05/2013
• Published 12/05/2013

Judges

• SINGLETON

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel