Does a change in law enacted while the action is pending apply to an award of attorney's fees?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Parker v. City of Los Angeles, 118 Cal.Rptr. 687, 43 Cal.App.3d 976 (Cal. App. 1974):
4 We note further that an award of attorney's fees authorized by a statute enacted while the action was pending has been upheld on the basis that the change in law was a procedural one only and therefore not violative of the general policy against statutory retroactivity. (See Olson v. Hickman, 25 Cal.App.3d 920, 922, 102 Cal.Rptr. 248.)
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