Perspective
Feb. 6, 2014
Muddling contracts and torts
If the state high court fails to overturn a recent verdict, it will effectively bless the dangerous conflation of simple contract law and open-ended tort law. By Tiger Joyce
My organization's annual Judicial Hellholes report, released last December, ranked California's civil courts as the most unfair in the nation for the second consecutive year. One day later and right on cue, a state appellate court upheld yet another example of a trial judge's irresponsible willingness to create new civil liabilities where none had existed before - ignoring precedent and undermining the state's fiscal future by chasi...
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