Brand, Nehrenheim win latest attorney fees ruling
by Garth Meyer A group including Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand and City Councilman Nils Nehrenheim picked up a legal win Jan. 22 when an L.A. Superior Court judge ruled they do not have to pay $164,000 in attorneys’ fees to plaintiffs who brought a losing case against them, about the fight against the defunct CenterCal waterfront project. The plaintiffs still may appeal. “We’re very pleased,” said attorney Jeanne Zimmer, who represented Nehrenheim. “It was an unreasonable motion to bring. We’re happy. And we’re done. Though I’ve said that before.” CenterCal co-founders Fred Bruning and Jean Paul Wardy were not named in the original case, but were in the judgment, after it was established that they were funding the lawsuit by residents Chris Voisey and Arnette Travis. “Nonparty Developers argue at cross-purposes,” wrote Judge Kerry Bensinger in his Jan. 22 ruling on the attorneys’ fees. “On the one hand, they argue the judgment against them is void because they were not parties to the action. On the other hand, they argue they are entitled to attorney’s fees because they are prevailing parties.” “Prevailing parties” refers to, after Brand and Nehrenheim’s group won the case in…
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