Panel Rejects Landlords’ Challenges To Fee Award For San Francisco

Mealey's (June 17, 2019, 10:18 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California court on June 13 affirmed a trial court’s award of $2,503,141 in attorney fees for the city and county of San Francisco, after holding that landlords’ acts of harassment in violation of a rent ordinance amounted to violations of California’s unfair competition law (UCL), finding that the city was entitled to fees and that the fees awarded were reasonable (San Francisco, et al. v. Anne Kihagi, et al., No. A152933, Calif. App., Div. 1, Dist. 1, 2019 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 4002)....