Legal Opinion

Stratton v. Beck

California Court of Appeal, 5th District

Decided December 7, 2018No. B287001PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.

*904This case began as a dispute over approximately $300 in unpaid wages. It has since transmogrified into a dispute concerning attorney fees totaling nearly 200 times that amount and is here now for the second time. In the previous appeal, appellant Thomas Beck challenged the trial court's award of attorney fees for work that respondent Anthony Stratton's attorney performed in that forum. We affirmed the trial court's ruling, holding that Stratton's motion for $31,365 in statutory attorney fees was timely and supported by substantial evidence. At the conclusion of our opinion, we stated, "In the…

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