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WOODLAND HILLS RESIDENTS ASSN., INC. v. CITY COUNCIL

Docket No. L.A. 30897.

23 Cal.3d 917 (1979)

593 P.2d 200

154 Cal. Rptr. 503

WOODLAND HILLS RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION, INC., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY COUNCIL OF LOS ANGELES et al., Defendants and Respondents; CONSOLIDATED RESOURCES, INC., Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

April 3, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Antonio Rossmann, A. James Roberts III and Tuttle & Taylor for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Burt Pines, City Attorney, Robert Thomson and Claude E. Hilker, Assistant City Attorneys, and Jerome Montgomery, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Respondents.

Axelrad, Seville & Ross and Richard H. Levin for Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, John J. Klee, Jr., and Edward P. Hill, Deputy Attorneys General, as Amici Curiae.

OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

In Serrano v. Priest (1977) 20 Cal.3d 25 [141 Cal.Rptr. 315, 569 P.2d 1303] (Serrano III), we concluded that California courts, exercising their inherent equitable authority, may award attorney fees under a "private attorney general"...

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