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California Supreme Court

Feb. 9, 2012

The final word: Civil law developments in the state Supreme Court

A convenient way to track the state Supreme Court's most important civil law cases. By Joseph M. Lipner and BJ Ard of Irell & Manella LLP


By Joseph M. Lipner and BJ Ard


The state Supreme Court makes headlines for controversial constitutional or criminal law decisions: gay marriage, a proposition's constitutionality, the rare death penalty reversal. But its most enduring influence has come in the less glamorous field of civil law. This Court has innovated rules concerning strict liability, the use of extrinsic evidence to interpret contracts, bad faith claims against insurers, and...

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