Graff v. Vallejo City Unified School Dist.
Filed 4/24/06 Graff v. Vallejo City Unified School Dist. CA1/5
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION FIVE
| JANE A. GRAFF, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. VALLEJO CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant and Respondent. |
A108600
(Solano County Super. Ct. No. FCS 020414) |
Following entry of judgment against plaintiff Jane Graff in her lawsuit against defendant Vallejo City Unified School District (District) alleging violation of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) (Gov. Code, § 12900 et seq.), she filed a timely appeal (A106121). We affirmed that judgment in a separate opinion filed concurrently with this opinion. Plaintiff also filed, in the trial court, a motion for determination of prevailing party and request for attorney fees pursuant to Government Code section 12965, subdivision (b) and Code of Civil Procedure section 1021.5. That motion was denied on September 10, 2004, and this separate appeal followed (A108600). Plaintiff argues that she is entitled to attorney fees, even though all of her substantive claims were rejected by the court's decision to grant the motion for nonsuit as to three claims and by the jury's defense verdict on the remaining claim for reasonable accommodation. We affirm.
Factual Background
Plaintiff, who is deaf, was hired as a substitute teacher by the District in April 1996. At that time, the District used a â€
