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COMMON CAUSE v. STIRLING

Docket No. 22746.

119 Cal.App.3d 658 (1981)

174 Cal. Rptr. 200

COMMON CAUSE et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. LARRY STIRLING, as City Councilman, etc., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

May 28, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Sullivan, Jones & Archer, Robert L. Simmons, James C. Krause, Benjamin & Sutton and William M. Benjamin for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

John W. Witt, City Attorney, Ronald L. Johnson, Chief Deputy City Attorney, and James J. Thomson, Jr., Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

WIENER, J.

We discuss in this appeal the standards which govern a trial court's award of attorney's fees under Government Code section 54960.51 to a prevailing plaintiff in a private action against a public entity found to have violated the Brown Act. (§ 54950 et seq.)

Common Cause and one of its members, Carolyn Sutton Eckmann, obtained a judgment declaring defendant members of the...

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