She Vows to Appeal the Fee Denial.
Third District Santa Barbara County Supervisor Doreen Farr was declared the winner over Steve Pappas, her opponent in last year’s supervisorial race, by 806 votes. Mr. Pappas filed suit to unseat Ms. Farr, but the challenge failed to disqualify allegedly fraudulent votes cast in the November 4, 2008 runoff.
Ms. Farr then sought to recoup $250,000 in attorney’s fees that she contended were spent by her in the unsuccessful challenge under California’s election law.
On July 6, 2009, Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge William McLafferty denied the fee request. In a July 7, 2009 article “Judge denies Farr’s motion” written by Samantha Yale Scroggin of The Santa Maria Times, Ms. Farr was quoted as saying, “We are planning to appeal, and we’ll see how that goes.”
BLOG UNDERVIEW—Talk about appeals, co-contributor Mike had the opportunity yesterday to do his first appellate argument before the Second District, Division Six Court of Appeal, based in Ventura, CA. He found that the panel of jurists—Justices Gilbert, Yegan, Perren, and Coffee—to be well prepared and very interactive on the cases that were on calendar.
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