Good Faith Settlement in Mass Toxic Tort Litigation
For purpose of determining whether defendant in mass toxic tort litigation settled in good faith, a government-ordered environmental...
Arbitration Agreements in Multiple Languages
Where auto sales agreement between seller and Spanish-speaking buyer was negotiated in Spanish, with written contract in English and...
Landlords Had No Duty to Inspect
Landlords had no duty to inspect rented premises, on which plaintiff was injured while working as a result of unintentionally setting off...
Judgment Debtor-Creditor Assignments
Code of Civil Procedure Sec. 708.510, which permits a trial court to order a judgment debtor to assign a right to receive payments from a...
Award of attorney fees in class action was not an abuse of discretion
Award of attorney fees, totaling 37.5 percent of recovery, to counsel for class action plaintiffs was not an abuse of discretion where...
Renewal of restraining order against harassment was error.
Renewal of restraining order against harassment was error where trial court failed to recognize on the record that renewal was...
Distributor of mineral spirits not entitled to summary judgment in products liability action
Distributor of mineral spirits, a component of a solvent to which cancer victims were allegedly exposed, was not entitled to summary...
No triable issue of material fact as to plaintiff’s claims in a ladder accident
Plaintiff testified at his deposition that the ladder from which he fell while painting defendants’ house did not appear to have anything...
Where complaint did not specify the amount of damages sought, default judgment was void
Where complaint did not specify the amount of damages sought, default judgment was void--not merely voidable--and subject to collateral...
No class standing - No class discovery
Where the plaintiff in a potential class action lacks standing, the court may not order discovery so that an appropriate plaintiff may be...