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July 11, 2005

Plaintiff attorneys seek close to $900,000 in fees from San Jose

Published: July 6, 2005
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journals
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Attorneys for property owners who successfully sued the City of San Jose in a redevelopment case filed for payment of $866,997.76 in legal fees July 1 in Santa Clara County Superior Court.

The motion stems from a nearly three-year legal battle between downtown
property owner Gross & Holmes Properties, LLC and the city and its Redevelopment Agency (RDA).

The RDA sought to declare 30 acres of downtown property "blighted" in order to include it in a redevelopment zone. The designation would have allowed the city to condemn the property. But Superior Court Judge Joseph Huber ruled in April that the city and RDA had provided insufficient proof that the Gross & Holmes-owned property could be declared blighted.

The city declined to appeal the judge's ruling and has now been served with a bill for the plaintiff's legal expenses from the San Jose law firm of Brooks & Hess, APC.

http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2005/07/04/daily9.html

Posted by Coalition Webbies at July 11, 2005 12:39 AM