Grange v. Ward CA2/7
This is the third appeal in this malicious prosecution action. The factual and procedural background of this action and the underlying action is described in detail in La Grange v. Tran (Nov. 12, 2015, B255835) [nonpub. opn.] (La Grange I) and La Grange v. Ward (Jan. 23, 2018, B275459 [nonpub. opn.] (La Grange II).
In this appeal Debra La Grange challenges the trial court’s award of $23,760 in attorneys’ fees to R. Jeffrey Ward, an attorney who represented Tina Tran in the underlying action and who became a defendant in the malicious prosecution action. After the trial court granted Ward’s special motion to strike under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16, a ruling we affirmed in La Grange II, the court granted Ward’s motion for attorneys’ fees, although the court awarded Ward much less than he asked for in fees.
La Grange does not dispute Ward prevailed, but argues the amount of the award of attorneys’ fees was unreasonable. We affirm.
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