{"id":746,"date":"2017-02-27T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/02\/27\/4-bits-intel-west-coast-state-bill-change-attorney-fees-calculation\/"},"modified":"2017-02-27T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T21:18:00","slug":"4-bits-intel-west-coast-state-bill-change-attorney-fees-calculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/4-bits-intel-west-coast-state-bill-change-attorney-fees-calculation\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Bits Intel. West Coast State Bill. Change Attorney Fees Calculation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0California<\/p>\n<p><strong>The current way attorney fees are awarded in eminent domain:<\/strong>\u00a0Since 1975, attorney fees can be awarded in California for eminent domain\u00a0if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>final offer of compensation was unreasonable<\/li>\n<li>the final demand of the property owner was reasonable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB408\">Assembly Bill 408<\/a> wants to change the standard for attorney fees in eminent domain to:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attorney fees<strong> must<\/strong> be awarded if condemnor\u2019s offer is lower than 90%\u00a0than the court&#8217;s value determination<\/li>\n<li>Attorney fees <strong>may<\/strong>\u00a0be awarded if\u00a0condemnor\u2019s offer is between 90-100% of\u00a0the court&#8217;s value determination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What opponents to <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB408\">AB 408<\/a> are saying:<\/strong>\u00a0this will disincetivize landowners from settling, encourage more litigation and thereby drive up costs for public projects<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/california-to-consider-significant-67954\/\">Nossaman LLP |\u00a0California to Consider Significant Change to Eminent Domain Law Regarding a Condemnee&#8217;s Right to Recover Litigation Expenses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0California<\/p>\n<p><strong>The current way attorney fees are awarded in eminent domain:<\/strong>\u00a0Since 1975, attorney fees can be awarded in California for eminent domain\u00a0if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>final offer of compensation was unreasonable<\/li>\n<li>the final demand of the property owner was reasonable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB408\">Assembly Bill 408<\/a> wants to change the standard for attorney fees in eminent domain to:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attorney fees<strong> must<\/strong> be awarded if condemnor\u2019s offer is lower than 90%\u00a0than the court&#8217;s value determination<\/li>\n<li>Attorney fees <strong>may<\/strong>\u00a0be awarded if\u00a0condemnor\u2019s\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,9,14,2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issues","category-compensation","category-legislation-trend","category-private-property-rights","category-process-procedure","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}