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Lin v. Jeng

Attorney's Fees, Property Law & Real Estate
In a partition action that resulted in ownership interests for each of seven siblings, the trial court's order granting and denying attorney's fees...

Marriage of Falcone

Attorney's Fees, Family Law, Sanctions
In five appeals brought in propria persona in dissolution of marriage proceedings, the court finds that the appellant is a vexatious litigant and...

Building a Better Redondo, Inc. v. City of Redondo Beach

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Elections, Property Law & Real Estate
On appeal of a writ of mandate compelling the City of Redondo Beach to submit a local coastal program amendment to public vote in compliance with a...

Matter of Sedacca

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Government Law
In a combined declaratory judgment/article 78 proceeding, the order of the Appellate Division is modified by granting judgment declaring that in the...

Federal Insurance Co. v. International Business Machines Corp.

Attorney's Fees, ERISA, Insurance Law
In a suit in which an insurer requested a declaration that its policy provided no coverage for any amount payable by the insured in settlement of an...

T-Peg, Inc. v. Vermont Timber Works, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Sanctions
On cross-appeals of a fee award made after a copyright infringement dispute between architectural firms, the First Circuit affirmed the amount of the...

Wachovia Securities, LLC v. Brand

Attorney's Fees, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
On a motion to confirm an arbitration award in favor of former employees who asserted that their former employer's claims against them were frivolous,...

Range Road Music, Inc. v. East Coast Foods, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
In a suit by music companies that owned song copyrights against the corporate owner of a restaurant at which the songs were played without license and...

Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP v. Rosenson

Attorney's Fees, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In a fee dispute between a law firm and its client, the trial court's grant of a petition to confirm a nonbinding arbitration award in favor of the...

SCI California Funeral Services, Inc. v. Five Bridges Foundation

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute arising over the purchase of the assets of a cemetery, in which the plaintiff alleged that it did not receive an option agreement or...