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NORTHINGTON v. DAVIS

Docket No. L.A. 30731.

23 Cal.3d 955 (1979)

593 P.2d 221

154 Cal. Rptr. 524

SUSAN NORTHINGTON et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. EDWARD DAVIS, as Chief of Police, etc., et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

April 3, 1979.

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.

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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