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Attorney fees

LOS ANGELES — A California appeals court reversed a $2.5 million attorney fees award in a case alleging surrounding cities and water companies took too much groundwater from Antelope Valley. The trial court improperly arrived at an hourly rate of $500 without explaining its reasoning.

/ August 25, 2021

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