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Foster Wheeler, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al.
Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, No. A162885 · judgment July 19, 2021
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Where a mesothelioma plaintiff sues more than 100 defendants, and the plaintiff’s health would not be endangered by the deposition process, does newly enacted California Code of Civil Procedure section 2025.295 violate fundamental principles of fairness and decency when it imposes an inviolable time limit on the defendants’ examination, but imposes no time limit, at all, on the plaintiff’s examination, with no recourse to any judicial remedies under any circumstances?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Edward R. Hugo
Hugo Parker, LLP
For respondent
Sharon JoEllen Arkin
The Arkin Law Firm
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Dec 13 2021Petition DENIED.
- Nov 23 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/10/2021.
- Nov 22 2021Reply of petitioners Foster Wheeler, LLC, et al. filed. (Distributed)
- Nov 08 2021Brief of respondents Edward Richards, et al. in opposition filed.
- Oct 04 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 8, 2021)