Government,
Constitutional Law,
Civil Litigation
Dec. 6, 2021
State must pay charities' counsel $600K for unlawful statutes
In achieving the statutes’ removal, the ruling on Thursday held, defense attorneys provided a significant public benefit to 115,000 charities who regularly solicit in the state of California, entitling their clients to recuperation of their fees.
The California attorney general will have to pay more than $600,000 in attorney fees to two charities after a judge ruled that statutes used to fine them for misleading solicitations were unconstitutional.
In achieving the statutes' removal, the ruling on Thursday held, defense attorneys provided a significant public benefit to 115,000 charities who regularly solicit in the state of California, entitling their clients to recuperation of t...
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