DOJ Raises Immunity Issues in Fee Request
December 18, 2013
A recent NLJ story, “After Supreme Court Win, Voting Rights Act Challengers Seek Fees,” reports that following a bitter legal battle before the U.S. Supreme Court over the scope of the...
December 18, 2013
A recent NLJ story, “After Supreme Court Win, Voting Rights Act Challengers Seek Fees,” reports that following a bitter legal battle before the U.S. Supreme Court over the scope of the...
November 3, 2013
A recent BLT blog post, “Lawyers in Circus Litigation Seek $25M in Fees,” reports that lawyers for the producer of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus want the animal rights...
September 2, 2013
California Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 462 into law, making it harder for employers to obtain attorney’s fees in certain employment wage claim cases. Prior to the passage of SB...
A California appeals court has upheld an attorney fee award of nearly $3 million against RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company in an action for the historic 1998 multi-state tobacco settlement. The court...
A recent The Recorder story, “In Netflix Captioning Case, an Unexpected Fee Fight,” reports that both sides are claiming victory in a disability rights class action against Netflix Inc.,...
April 18, 2012
A recent Metropolitan News story, “C.A. Tosses Ruling Allowing Client to Cut Lawyer Out of Fee Award,” reports that an attorney who represents the prevailing plaintiff in a wage-and-hour...
A recent The Recorder story, “Justice Grapple with Attorney Fee Awards in Rest Break Suit,” reports that after wading into the latest wage-and-hour suit, the state Supreme Court sounded...
February 22, 2012
Last week, the Missouri Legislature introduced a bill that would implement the so-called “loser pays” English Rule and undo centuries of jurisprudence under the American Rule in civil...
February 17, 2012
A recent article in the State Bar of California’s California Litigation, “When the American Rule Doesn’t Apply: Attorney’s Fees as Damages in California Litigation...
December 1, 2011
A recent The Recorder story “Linear Technology on the Hook for $8.4 Million in Attorney Fees” reports that a California court of appeals upheld a defense judgment in favor of Novellus...