Carl OLSON et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants,
v.
AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Defendant and Appellant.
Supreme Court of California.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
February 28, 2008.
February 28, 2008.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Law Office of Thomas K. Bourke, Thomas K. Bourke, Rizwan R. Ramji, Los Angeles; Law Office of Lorraine L. Loder, Lorraine L. Loder, Los Angeles; Law Office of Richard M. Pearl and Richard M. Pearl, Berkeley, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
Brad Seligman, Julia Campins, Edith Matthai, Berkeley; David Blair-Loy; Peter Eliasberg; Alan Schlosser; Ken Kresse; Luke W. Cole; Linda Kilb; Irma Herrera; Adrienne Bloch, Oakland; Trent Orr; David Greene; Alan Ramo; Luz Buitrago; Matthew Goldberg, San Francisco; Marci Seville; Julia R. Wilson; Richard Rothschild, Los Angeles; John O'Toole, Dara Schur, Sacramento; Lisa Jaskol; Michael Wall; John Affeldt, San Francisco; Kyra Kazantzis; Michael Rawson; and Alice Bussiere for The Impact Fund, Los Angeles County Bar Association, American Civil Liberties Union, California Center for Law and the Deaf, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, Communities for Better Environment, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Disability Rights Legal Center-Civil Rights Litigation Project, Earthjustice, Equal Rights Advocates, First Amendment Project, Golden Gate University School of Law-Environmental Law and Justice Clinic, Law Center for Families, Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, Legal Aid Association of California, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, National Center for Youth Law, Natural Resources Defense Council, Protection and Advocacy, Inc., Public Advocates, Public Counsel, Public Interest Law Project, Western Center on Law and Poverty, Women's Employment Rights Clinic of Golden Gate University School of Law and Youth Law Center as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.
The Sturdevant Law Firm, James C. Sturdevant and Mark T. Johnson, San Francisco, for National Association of Consumer Advocates as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.
Steven G. Ingram, for Consumer Attorneys of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.
Morrison & Foerster, Charles E. Patterson, John Sobieski, Howard B. Soloway, Los Angeles, and Phillip Bronson, Encino, for Defendant and Appellant.
Supreme Court of California.
MORENO, J.
Code of Civil Procedure section 1021.5 provides, in pertinent part, that "[u]pon motion, a court may award attorneys' fees to a successful party ... in any action which has resulted in the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest if ... a significant benefit ... has been conferred on the general public...." We granted review in this matter to decide whether, under this statute, a prevailing plaintiff who is awarded attorney fees is...
Let's get started
Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting Sign on now to see your case. Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.
Updated daily.
Uncompromising quality.
Complete, Accurate, Current.
Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full
text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.
Cited Cases
No Cases Found
Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the
full text of the citing case.
