California Civil Discovery Act of 1986: Discovery the New-Fashioned Way, TheMares, DianeSw.u.l.revDiane Mares, The California Civil Discovery Act of 1986: Discovery the New- Fashioned Way!, 18 Sw. U. L. Rev. 233, 250 (1989). (return to text)...
A civil lawsuit starts with filing a “complaint” and ends either by trial, appeal or settlement. However, the vast majority of time and expense is incurred in “discovery,” which is the process of both gathering evidence for trial and also requiring the opposing party to disclose, under ...
U.S. District Courts | California Central District Court | Civil Right | 2:24-CV-00901 | 02/01/2024 DOCKET 03/19/2024 (#19) JOINT STIPULATION TO DISMISS CASE PURSUANT TO FRCP 41(A)(1)(A)(II) FILED BY PLAINTIFF SHONNA COUNTER. (ATTACHMENTS: #1 PROOF OF SERVICE)(SEABOCK, AMANDA) ...
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The Los Angeles County Superior Court found the City engaged in extensive discovery abuse to conceal its misconduct, including withholding documents and providing false testimony. The court imposed $2.5 million in monetary sanctions against the City under the Civil Discovery Act, specifically sections 20...
breaches. Under the private right of action, damages can come in between $100 and $750 per incident per consumer. The California AG also can enforce the CCPA in its entirety with the ability to levy a civil penalty of not more than $2,500 per violation or $7,500 per intentional ...
For example, an employee considering filing a claim against their employer could try to use the consumer right to know as a means of side-stepping civil discovery rules. Use of that consumer right by an employee also could lead to the disclosure of proprietary information or communications that...
Rob Shwarts, of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco, argues in a recentarticle in The Recorder, “We need to get over the idea that there must be 12 jurors in the box to conduct a state court civil trial. This number is not legally required, and while COVID-19 persists,...
San Francisco rapidly became a boom city, and its bawdy, lawless coastal area, which became known as the Barbary Coast, gave rise to the vigilantes, extralegal community groups formed to suppress civil disorder. American writers such as Bret Harte and Mark Twain have recorded the local color ...
led by the backers of California Sen. William M. Gwin, sought to divide California into two states, one slave and one free. The same group also attempted to promote a Pacific Coast republic. At theonsetof the Civil War, however, California sided with the North and provided it with materi...