Appellants William Greene, California Consulting Group
(CCG), and R & R Trust1 obtained a judgment in their favor and
against respondent Karen de la Carriere (Carriere). The trial
court declared Greene the prevailing party and awarded him
attorney fees pursuant to a contractual attorney fees provision.
Greene nonetheless appealed, contending the trial court erred in
calcula

This is the third chapter in our appellate review of this controversy, which
involves the wrongful denial of unemployment benefits by respondents Employment
Development Department (EDD) and the California Unemployment Insurance Board
(Board). After both EDD and the Board rejected a claim for unemployment benefits filed
by Jose Robles—and the trial court denied Robles’s pet

Los Angeles, California personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who claimed defendant drugged and raped her.

In 2014, plaintiff Janice Dickinson publicly alleged that
defendant William Cosby drugged and raped her in 1982. Cosby
responded by issuing a demand letter and several press releases
through his attorney, which expressed or implied that Dickinson
was lying. Dic

Edith Rogers appeals from her removal as administrator of the estate of her
grandfather Roscoe Sapp, Sr. (decedent), who died in 1994. Armuress Sapp and Brian
Lincoln, two of decedent’s grandsons, separately petitioned to remove Rogers as
administrator. The probate court found Rogers (1) had failed to comply with the court’s
2001 instructions that she and her coadministrator (w

LeRoy Guillory and 11 other plaintiffs appeal from the court’s denial of
their 42 U.S.C. section 1988 (§ 1988) motion for attorney fees as prevailing parties in
their civil rights claim against defendant Orange County Sheriff’s Department
Investigator Michele Hill. Plaintiffs contend the court abused its discretion when it
denied their request for attorney fees.
Section 19

We recount some of the facts from an opinion authored by
Division Five of this District in the second of two related appeals,
which we will call Wertheim III. (Wertheim, LLC v. Currency
Corp. (Aug. 25, 2017, B270926) [nonpub. opn.].)
In 2009, a jury in Department 44 of the superior court
found Currency liable to Wertheim for breach of contract, and
awarded it $38,554.48. Th

A vexatious litigant’s request to sue his attorneys for legal malpractice was
denied by the superior court, as was his motion for reconsideration of that request. This
court denied extraordinary relief. Undaunted, the vexatious litigant asked a different
presiding judge to give him leave to file the identical legal malpractice complaint. This
time, his request was granted and the

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Plaintiff Jorge Fierro filed the underlying action against defendant Landry's
Restaurants, Inc.,1 seeking remedies for what Fierro alleges to be Landry's Restaurants's
violations of specified California labor laws and wage orders. Fierro asserts claims on
behalf of himself and on behalf of a class of individuals that he alleges is similarly
situated. Landry's Restaurants demurred t

In a prior appeal, this court affirmed a judgment denying A.K. Anderson’s petition
for writ of mandate challenging the September 15, 2012, suspension of his driver’s
license by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). (A.K. Anderson v. George
Valverde (June 12, 2015, E059981) [nonpub. opn.] (Anderson I).) We concluded the
record contained substantial evidence that Anderson had b

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Plaintiff Rostack Investments, Inc. obtained a summary
judgment against defendant Angela Sabella in an amount
exceeding $50 million. We reversed the judgment on appeal, and
awarded Sabella her costs as prevailing party. Sabella’s
memorandum of costs sought to recover approximately $1.4
million in costs related to her obtaining a surety bond, secured by
a letter of credit,