Three-and-a-Half Years of Appellate Litigation over a $5,368.88 Cost Award

Williams v. Chino Valley Ind. Fire Dist., No S213100 (Cal. May 4, 2015)

Appellate litigation in California can be a long game. The complaint in this case was filed in February 2008. The trial court order at issue—an award of $5,368.88 in costs to a prevailing defendant in a FEHA case—was entered on November 19, 2011. I wrote about this case in the third post on this blog, way back in the summer of 2013. The Supreme Court granted review that fall. And now nineteen months and 350-ish posts later, the court reverses the court of appeal.