Legal Opinion
Vedanta Society of Southern California v. California Quartet Ltd.
California Court of Appeal
Decided October 30, 2000No. G026580PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SILLS, P. J.
I. Introduction
Tie votes mean different things in different contexts. The fictitious spelunkers in Lon Fuller’s famous law review article, finding themselves trapped in a cave and resorting to cannibalism to stay alive for the requisite amount of time until a rescue party reached them, were sentenced to death for murder when the mythical five-person Supreme Court of Newgarth, reviewing the conviction of a lower court, tied two to two. The tie was the result of one justice on the five-person panel dithering to the point that he was unable to resolve his own doubts, and…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Sunset Drive Corp. v. City of RedlandsCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1999
- Kleist v. City of GlendaleCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1976
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3Cited by34 opinions
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