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Judge David Flinn Got Really Hard,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
You might want do your homework before asking this Contra Costa County Superior Court judge for attorney's fees. Not only does he have an eagle eye,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but he's not afraid to call a lawyer out.
In one recent-ish decision,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Judge David Flinn noted in a less-than-pleased fashion that for the Mt. Diablo Unified School District not submitted what the judge wanted when he asked for a "task by task" analysis of work done.
Flinn also took the school district's attorney,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Walnut Creek solo Peter Bonis,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to task for comments in his briefing that the judge found "offensive" particularly when Bonis blamed the lengthy trial on the "ineptitude" of the plaintiff/contractor's attorneys,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Rosin of Mountain View's Leonidou Rosin and Andrew Van Ornum, a partner in the San Francisco office of Watt,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Tieder,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Hoffar Fitzgerald. "You are wrong Mr. Bonis,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Flinn wrote. "The services of both of those attorneys was professional and capable. … Mr. Bonis,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], have provided the court with real and meaningful examples of 'inept.'"
Ouch,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]!
We don even have to tell you to read on,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the jump
The judge Nov. 30 ruling those examples of "inept" well as some more of "chutzpah" --before suggesting that "Perhaps,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Mr. Bonis, an apology to opposing counsel would be very appropriate."
Bonis told Legal Pad that his opponents had frequently been criticized by Flinn during the trial for taking too long. As one example,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he pointed to this from a court transcript (Page 32 here),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in which Flinn is speaking to Rosin:
THE COURT: Counsel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we been all afternoon with very few facts. We heard your final argument and you get it again at the end of the day but please let get the facts for the jury.
As for the apology Flinn urged Bonis make to his opponents,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Bonis said "hell's going to freeze over before I do that."
Rosin told Legal Pad his opponent's "inept" comments were frustrating,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "but obviously it's nice to hear something like that from the judge."
The case resulted in a judgment of $1.5 million,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], plus fees and costs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Mt. Diablo Unified School District; it was brought by the contractor that built Delta View Elementary School (in Pittsburg) for the district. That might be the impetus for the fine-toothed comb -- in his decision, Flinn noted "the economic effect that this penalty award will have upon the children attending the various schools of the Mt. Diablo District." He awarded $775,000 in fees.
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