Legal Opinion
Kerkeles v. City of San Jose
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 18, 2015No. H040919PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ELIA, J.
— Plaintiff Michael Kerkeles appeals from an order awarding him a small fraction of the attorney fees he requested after settling his civil rights lawsuit against the City of San Jose (the City) and Matthew Christian, a police officer for the City. Plaintiff contends that the reduction of his fee claim was legally unsupportable because the court (1) arbitrarily awarded the fees at less than half the market rate without articulating a basis for its ruling, (2) erroneously determined that fees were unavailable under Code of Civil Procedure section 1021.5, (3) failed to address…
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