Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
COUNSEL
Burt Pines, City Attorney, Claude E. Hilker and Jerome Montgomery, Assistant City Attorneys, and Gregory C. O'Brien, Jr., Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Appellants.
Daniel M. Luevano, Robert T. Olmos, Patricia Tenoso, John E. McDermott, Michele Washington, Richard Rothschild, Rosalyn M. Chapman, Diane Messer and Linda Ferguson for Plaintiffs and Respondents.
Antonio Rossmann, Carlyle W. Hall, Jr., Brent N. Rushforth and John R. Phillips as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.
Supreme Court of California.
OPINION
TOBRINER, J.
This case, like Woodland Hills Residents Assn., Inc. v. City Council, ante, page 917 [154 Cal.Rptr. 503, 593 P.2d 200], presents a question as to the propriety of an attorney fee award in public interest litigation. In this case, as in Woodland Hills, at the time the trial court passed on plaintiffs' motion for attorney...
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