No Oil, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles

Opinion

THOMPSON, J.

The issue presented by this appeal is whether the trial court properly granted the motion of defendants, City of Los Angeles (City), and Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Occidental), to dismiss all further proceedings in the case pursuant to the three-year rule of Code of Civil Procedure 1 section 583, subdivision (c), and thus foreclose the plaintiffs from resetting their motion for attorneys’ fees pursuant to the provisions of section 1021.5. For reasons to follow, we have concluded that the trial court’s decision granting defendants’ dismissal motion should be reversed.

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