(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this brain injury/personal injury case and its proceedings.) FACTUAL BACKGROUND On the date of the collision Plaintiffs had stopped at the intersection of White Road in the left turn lane…
(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this bus accident/personal injury case and its proceedings.) Although Chance’s ten-year-old car accident failed to illuminate any issue before the jury, the information did help assuage any pangs the juror’s…
(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this automobile accident/personal injury case and its proceedings.) DEFENDANT STACY GREENE CONSPIRED WITH EL MEXICANO RESTAURANT TO VIOLATE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE SEC. 25602.1 Plaintiff’s Third Cause of Action alleges…
(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this sexual harassment/personal injury case and its proceedings.) With respect to subject matter: The jury need not be wholly ignorant of the subject matter of the opinion . . .…
The following blog entry is written from a defendant’s position after a jury trial verdict for plaintiff. Reviewing this kind of briefing should help potential plaintiffs and clients better understand how parties in a personal injury case present such issues to the court. (Please note: the names and locations of…
(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this bus accident/personal injury case and its proceedings.) THE TESTIMONY OF SANDY WHITE ESTABLISHED THAT THE DOG HAD BEEN TO DEFENDANT TOPP’S RESIDENCE AT LEAST 5-6 TIMES. a. Sandy White,…
(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this bus accident/personal injury case and its proceedings.) B. It was an abuse of discretion for the court to allow remote, irrelevant but highly prejudicial testimony to be admitted concerning…
(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this bus accident/personal injury case and its proceedings.) LEGAL STANDARD FOR MOTION C.C.P. section 657 provides, in part: The verdict may be vacated and any other decision may be modified…
(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this dog bite/personal injury case and its proceedings.) TESTIMONY OF PLAINTIFF SANDY WHITE A. Testimony from plaintiff White indicated that the dog that attacked her (twice) on the day of…
(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this automobile accident/personal injury case and its proceedings.) Since the Greenes had assumed an affirmative duty to protect, control and supervise him on the night and early morning of December…