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SUNDANCE v. MUNICIPAL COURT

Docket No. B017363.

192 Cal.App.3d 268 (1987)

237 Cal. Rptr. 269

ROBERT SUNDANCE et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. THE MUNICIPAL COURT FOR THE LOS ANGELES JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY et al., Defendants and Appellants; CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Defendants and Respondents; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

May 29, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Carlyle W. Hall, Jr., Lucas Guttentag, Joel R. Reynolds, Fredric D. Woocher, John R. Phillips and Bill Lann Lee for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

John H. Larson and De Witt W. Clinton, County Counsel, and Philip S. Miller, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Appellants.

Ira Reiner, City Attorney, James H. Pearson, Senior Assistant City Attorney, and Denise M. Beaudry, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Respondents.

No appearance for Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

OPINION

KINGSLEY, Acting P.J.

This is an appeal from the award of $536,000 in attorneys' fees to plaintiffs in a class action. The defendants, other than the City of Los Angeles, attack the award. The plaintiffs cross-appeal from the same award. We reverse and remand.

In 1975, the plaintiffs — four public inebriates and one taxpayer — brought a class action suit...

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