Legal Opinion
Meister v. Regents of University of California
California Court of Appeal
Decided October 23, 1998No. H016022PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MIHARA, J.
Plaintiff prevailed in a civil action against defendants. He recovered $25,000 in noneconomic damages and $2,500 in punitive damages and obtained an injunction. The court also awarded him his “reasonable attorney’s fees.” However, the court’s calculation of “reasonable attorney’s fees” yielded but a small fraction of the total amount plaintiff had been charged by his attorneys. In this appeal, plaintiff challenges the trial court’s methodology in arriving at this amount. We affirm.
Background
On January 9, 1991, defendant Gary Lease, the dean of humanities at the University of…
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