MOTION FOR ATTORNEYS FEES
5. CASE # CASE NAME HEARING NAME FUMEY VS FORD CVRI2404491 MOTION FOR ATTORNEYS FEES MOTOR COMPANY Tentative Ruling: The Motion is granted with modifications. Reducing the Inscore billing by 0.8 hours to account for the incomprehensible September 19 and February 25 entries and otherwise leaving the hours billed as is, and imposing an hourly rate of $400 an hour for the attorneys and $150 an hour for the paralegals, the recovery would be:
Attorney Hourly Hours Total Rate Yeck $550 27.5 $11.000 Inscore $550 25.1 $10,040 Burford $550 1 $400 Porter $550 3.5 $1,400 Ulloa $150 34 $5,100 Segovia $150 6.2 $930 Carrera $150 2.9 $435 Quiroga $150 1.7 $255 Pedraza $150 7.4 $1,110 TOTAL 109.3 $30,670
Plus $2,202.79 in costs.
6. CASE # CASE NAME HEARING NAME SCALE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY VS PALO DEMURRER ON PETITION FOR CVRI2601746 VERDE UNIFIED WRIT OF MANDATE (CEQA) SCHOOL DISTRICT Tentative Ruling:
This is an action for the approval of a charter school renewal petition. On April 1, 2026, Petitioner Scale Leadership Academy (“Petitioner”) filed a Petition for Writ of Mandate (“Petition”) against Respondent Palo Verde Unified School District (“Respondent” or “PVUSD”) seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. In the Petition, Petitioner alleges that it operates SCALE Leadership Academy-East (“SLA-EAST”), an independent charter school serving 1,400 high-risk, remote students that was authorized and approved by Respondent, a public school district, in 2018. (Petition at ¶¶ 3-5, 11.) On January 20, 2026, SLA-EAST submitted a petition for renewal of its charter to
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