Civil Litigation,
California Supreme Court
Feb. 2, 2018
Class action majority rejected
This week the state high court rejected the opportunity to join the majority of courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, by holding that objectors need not formally intervene to obtain appellate standing.
Marcos D. Sasso
Special Counsel
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
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UCLA SOL
This week the California Supreme Court ruled that class action objectors must first intervene, rather than simply object, before having standing to appeal a class action settlement or judgment. Hernandez v. Restoration Hardware, Inc., 2018 DJDAR 998 (Jan. 19, 2018). The court rejected the invitation to revisit its prior 75-year-old decision in Eggert v. Pac. States S. & L. Co., 20 Cal. 2d 199 (1942), on the i...
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