Labor/Employment
Mar. 19, 2011
Union Must Pay Prosecutor's Legal Fees
A judge has awarded more than $100,000 in attorney fees to a deputy DA who sued the prosecutors union for illegally canceling elections.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - A judge Thursday awarded attorney fees to a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who successfully sued the prosecutors' union for not holding proper elections.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant ruled that evidence of the union's financial hardship was "relatively weak" and not reason enough for them to duck $101,625 in legal fees incurred by Dep...
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