Arbitration & Mediation

Court of Appeal Grants Rehearing in Burlage

By Victoria Pynchon

I recently reported with surprise the Second Appellate District's Burlage opinion in which it refused to vacate the trial court's vacation of a $1.5 million arbitration award based upon the arbitrator's rejection of evidence that the damages sought were not in fact suffered by claimants.

At the Federal Bar Association luncheon today I sat at attorney Wendy Lascher's table to hear the Dean of the new U.C. Law School at Irvine, Erwin Chemerinsky speak about the new Supreme Court term.  Wendy represented the losing party in Burlage and was awaiting word from the Court of Appeal on her Petition for Rehearing, which was granted this afternoon.

I don't have a copy of the Petition for Rehearing but I do have a copy of the Answer to the Petition here and the Reply here.

Updates and an interview with Lascher soon.

Full post as published by Settle It Now Negotiation Blog on September 30, 2009 (boomark / email).