Legal Opinion
Foxgate Homeowners' Ass'n v. Bramalea California, Inc.
California Supreme Court
Decided July 9, 2001No. S087319PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BAXTER, J.
The questions we address here are independent of the issues in the underlying lawsuit. Instead, we face the intersection between court-ordered mediation, the confidentiality of which is mandated by law (Evid. Code, §§ 703.5, 1115-1128), 1 and the power of a court to control proceedings before it and other persons “in any manner connected with a judicial proceeding before it” (Code Civ. Proc., § 128, subd. (a)(5)), by imposing sanctions on a party or the party’s attorney for statements or conduct during mediation. (See Code Civ. Proc., §§ 128.5, 1209; Bus. & Prof. Code, §…
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