Legal Opinion
Families Unafraid To Uphold Rural El Dorado County v. El Dorado County Board of Supervisors
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 29, 2000No. C031681PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
DAVIS, J.
In this environmental land use dispute, the City of Plymouth, the Foothill Conservancy, and an unincorporated association, Families Unafraid to Uphold Rural El Dorado County (known by its acronym, The Future) (collectively, plaintiffs), appeal from two orders denying their motions for attorney fees under the private attorney general theory of Code of Civil Procedure section 1021.5 (hereafter, section 1021.5).
In denying the two motions for attorney fees, the trial court concluded that plaintiffs had failed to show that their financial burden in bringing suit was *510out of…
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