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Former Manhattan Beach City Manager Geoff Dolan must pay Manhattan Beach $45,187 in attorney fees stemming from his breach of contract lawsuit against the city, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Susan Bryant-Deason ruled on Thursday.
Former Manhattan Beach City Manager Geoff Dolan’s attorney, Patricio Barrera, filed a motion on Friday opposing the city’s request for attorney fees, according to court documents.
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge dismissed the former city manager’s lawsuit against the City of Manhattan Beach and former City Attorney Robert Wadden on Tuesday, halting the legal battle centered around the city’s release of documents pertaining to his resignation.
After Roxanne Diaz’s appointment as Manhattan Beach city attorney in September, the self-described “new kid on the block” inherited a stack of claims and lawsuits filed against the city of Manhattan Beach.
?Geoff Dolan, former Manhattan Beach city manager of 15 years, filed a lawsuit against the city of Manhattan Beach for breach of contract and invasion of privacy rights based on the city’s disclosure of records that Dolan argues were confidential.
Former city attorney Robert Wadden filed a $1.5 million claim against the city of Manhattan Beach on September 16 for age discrimination, breach of contract, defamation and interference with economic opportunity.
Former Manhattan Beach City Manager Geoff Dolan’s attorney expects to find out in a couple weeks whether the city will find itself facing another lawsuit.
Former city manager Geoff Dolan, 57, has filed a $2 million claim against the city, nearly a year and a half after his sudden and controversial departure.
Richard McKee, founder and director of watchdog group Californians Aware, died Saturday, nearly six weeks after winning a lawsuit against the city over Brown Act violations in connection with former city manager Geoff Dolan’s departure.
The Manhattan Beach City Council Tuesday voted unanimously to fire city attorney Robert Wadden a week after he was placed on administrative leave.
Manhattan Beach City Council Tuesday unanimously voted to place city attorney Robert Wadden on administrative leave for a week effective immediately, during the last of three special closed session meetings held in a week to discuss his performance.
An anonymous letter released Monday alleges that former city manager Geoff Dolan engaged in sexual harassment during a city team building retreat in October 2009.
After more than a year of dodging allegations of Brown Act violations in the departure of former Manhattan Beach City Manager Geoff Dolan, the city has agreed to publicly apologize to residents and release associated documents so far kept sealed.
A watchdog group suing the City of Manhattan Beach over its handling of former city manager Geoff Dolan’s departure more than a year ago hopes that a March trial will once and for all provide residents with long-awaited answers into an issue that the city has remained largely silent about.
At the beginning of the year, the city found itself without a manager and at the start of an exhaustive, year-long search for a replacement, leaving an interim manager to navigate the city through an investigation into an alleged police hit-and-run cover-up, the reopening of the city’s controversial sand dune, a crackdown on the Six-Man Volleyball Tournament and a last-minute save of the Manhattan Beach Open Volleyball Tournament. [Read More]