REMEDIES FOR UNFAIR PRACTICES; MISCELLANEOUS REMEDIAL PROVISIONS – Attorneys Fees and Costs

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The Board will consider issuing monetary sanctions in future cases where parties, including self represented parties, submit filings that include citations to nonexistent case law or unsupported legal principles. The Board has authority to issue monetary and non-monetary sanctions in such circumstances, including but not limited to awarding the opposing party or parties reasonable attorney fees for the time and resources spent responding to Garcia’s bad faith appeal. (Palomar Health (2024) PERB Decision No. 2895-M, p. 67 [sanctions proper if a party’s claim, defense, motion, or other action or tactic was without arguable merit and pursued in bad faith]; Los Rios Community College District and Los Rios College Federation of Teachers, Local 2279 (2018) PERB Decision No. 2614, pp. 4-6 [discussing monetary and non-monetary litigation sanctions]; City of Alhambra (2009) PERB Decision No. 2037 M, pp. 2-4 [explaining basis for award of attorney fees and litigation costs]; see also, e.g., Gov. Code, § 11455.30(a).)