Legal Opinion
River West, Inc. v. Nickel
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 27, 1987No. Docket F005322PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WOOLPERT, Acting P. J.
Plaintiffs appeal from a pretrial order disqualifying their counsel for conflict of interest. Some 27 to 30 years before the motion for disqualification was made, one of plaintiffs’ attorneys represented an individual who now appears as a defendant in the present action. In both the old and new matters the litigation concerned water rights along the Kern River in the central valley. An issue before the trial court on the motion to disqualify was whether the matters were “substantially related,” a legal point of significance in attorney disqualification. The trial…
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