Perspective
Feb. 8, 2013
Goodwill: If you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
Dry Canyon held that a trial court must find that a business owner had goodwill to lose before the owner is entitled to present evidence of its loss of goodwill to a jury. By John C. Murphy and Ali V. Tehrani
In his 1965 hit "Like A Rolling Stone," Bob Dylan famously observed, "When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose." Did Dylan croon these words with a business owner's claim for goodwill in an eminent domain action in mind?
Not likely, but in People ex rel. Dept. of Tranp. v. Dry Canyon Enterprises, LLC, 211 Cal. App. 4th 486 (2012), the 2nd District Court o...
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