Lawyers Requesting Over $1.5 Million More in Gibson Dissolution Proceeding.
As reported in a January 27, 2011 post by the TMZ staff, Oksana Grigorieva’s lawyers are asking Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon--the same judge who heard the McCourt case--to order Mel Gibson to pay substantial attorney’s fees on top of $500,000 in fees previously awarded so that Oksana can fight it out in court. Her current lawyers are asking for $1.2 million in fees for work performed since September 2010, another firm is asking for $250,000, a third lawyer wants $163,000 for one month’s work, and other lawyers/firms are requesting hundreds of thousands more. Judge Gordon has yet to rule on the latest requests.
City of Laguna Woods Ordered to Pay Raintree Realty $851,005.94 In Eminent Domain Lawsuit.
Claire Webb, in a January 26, 2011 post in the on-line version of The Orange County Register, reports that a superior court judge on January 22 ordered the City of Laguna Woods to pay $851,005.94 in attorney’s fees and expert expenses to property owner Raintree Realty in eminent domain proceedings related to the acquisition of the City Hall Building after a jury verdict in Raintree’s favor. The superior court judge found Raintree’s final demand for compensation reasonable while the city’s final offer was adjudged to be unreasonable in nature. However, the judge disallowed $49,911 in travel expenses. In our category “Eminent Domain,” we have explored two recent cases discussing the comparative final demand approach factors used in granting/denying fee/litigation expense awards. See People ex rel. Dept. of Transportation v. Acosta, 178 Cal.App.4th 762 (2009) [discussed in our October 26, 2009 post]; Tracy Jt. Unified School Dist. v. Pombo, 189 Cal.App.4th 889 (2010) [discussed in our October 30, 2010 post]. Looks like City will appeal, which may well produce another decision in the eminent domain jurisprudential arena.
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