Is a plaintiff entitled to fees and costs under section 14030 of the California Civil Code?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Pico Neighborhood Ass'n v. City of Santa Monica, 265 Cal.Rptr.3d 530 (Cal. App. 2020):

Section 14030 is a one-way attorney fee provision: the prevailing plaintiff party is entitled to fees and costs, so long as the plaintiff is not the state or a political subdivision. There is no fee provision for prevailing defendants. Prevailing defendants do not recover costs unless the action was frivolous or the like. (See generally Rey v. Madera Unified School Dist. (2012) 203 Cal.App.4th 1223, 12351245, 138 Cal.Rptr. 3d 192.)

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