What is the legal test of ambiguity in the context of attorney fees?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Johnson v. Johnson, F073191 (Cal. App. 2018):
Our conclusions on the threshold legal question of ambiguity are summarized as follows. First, the terms "matter," "with respect to" and "regarding" are reasonably susceptible to more than one meaning when the question presented is the scope of the attorney fees provision. (See State of California v. Continental Ins. Co. (2012) 55
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