Appeals Court reverses legal fees ruling on mayor, councilman
by Garth Meyer Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand, City Councilman Nils Nehrenheim and others may yet have to pay for their attorney fees from a 2018 trial after a California Appeals Court reversed its own earlier ruling. The May 19 decision came after the attorney-fees question went to the state Supreme Court last year. The justices sent it back to the Appeals Court to say whether or not the case was frivolous to start with. “We hold the defendants and respondents are not entitled to an award of attorney fees,” the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Eight, wrote last week. Its statement cited the Political Reform Act of 1974 and the state Code of Civil Procedure. “This matter is, one hopes, the final stage of a lawsuit about an electoral campaign in 2016 and 2017,” wrote the Court. The suit, filed by Redondo Beach residents Chris Voisey, Arnette Travis and CenterCal affiliate Redondo Beach Waterfront, alleged improprieties by Brand, Nehrenheim, Brand’s former campaign treasurer, and a co-founder of Rescue Our Waterfront, a political action committee set up to stop the $400 million CenterCal King Harbor development plan. “Although the plaintiffs lost at trial, they…
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