Flannery v. California Highway Patrol

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “factors such as the novelty and complexity of the case and the special skill and experience of counsel are necessarily reflected in the lodestar and do not” necessarily “merit an enhancement of that figure’’
• allowing use of lodestar multiplier in FEHA case, and listing other cases which have applied a multiplier under different statutes
• in a case awarding attorney fees pursuant to statute, court acknowledges disagreement among California courts as to whether the lodestar method must apply in cases which implicate Cal. Civ. Code § 1717

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).