China Fortune Land Development v. 1955 Capital Fund I GP LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CHINA FORTUNE LAND Case No. 19-cv-07043-VC DEVELOPMENT, et al.,

Petitioners, ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

DENYING IN PART MOTION FOR

v. ATTORNEYS’ FEES, PREJUDGMENT

INTEREST, AND POST-JUDGMENT

1955 CAPITAL FUND I GP LLC, et al., INTEREST Respondents. Re: Dkt. No. 112

The respondents’ motion for attorneys’ fees is granted in part and denied in part. The contracts between the parties authorize the respondents to seek fees for the appeal, the motion for an indicative ruling, and the motion for fees itself, and all of these requests are timely or there is good cause to excuse delay. But the amount the respondents seek to recover is unreasonable and will be reduced substantially. The motion for pre-judgment interest, and the accompanying request for post-judgment interest, is denied as untimely. 1. The respondents’ motion for fees for the appeal is timely, and even if it is not, good cause excuses the delay. Ninth Circuit rules are admittedly ambiguous about when a motion for fees on appeal must be filed when the motion is transferred back to the district court…