Legal Opinion

Bowers v. Raymond J. Lucia Companies

California Court of Appeal

Decided May 30, 2012No. D059333PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

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McCONNEL, P.J.

INTRODUCTION

Raymond J. Lucia Companies, Inc. (defendant), appeals from a judgment enforcing a settlement agreement resulting in a binding mediation award in favor of Ryan N. Bowers, Marc Seward, and Jeffrey LaBerge (plaintiffs). Defendant contends we must reverse the judgment as the underlying settlement agreement is unenforceable because (1) defendant never agreed to resolve the parties’ dispute through binding mediation; (2) a contract term providing for binding mediation is necessarily too uncertain to be enforceable; and (3) binding mediation is not among the…

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