Vanderwerker v. People

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• observing that California statutory law “authorizes an award of attorney fees ‘[i]n any action on a contract’ to ‘the party prevailing on the contract’ if the contract provides for an award of attorney fees” (quoting Cal. Civ. Code § 1717(a))
• defeating petition to compel arbitration filed in pending contract action does not justify attorney’s fees because merits of contract action are still to be determined and there can only be one prevailing party “on the action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).