Legal Opinion
Jeld-Wen, Inc. v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 4, 2007No. D048782PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
McINTYRE, J.
In this case we hold that trial courts do not have the authority to order parties in a complex civil action to attend and pay for private mediation.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Jeld-Wen, Inc., is an uninsured cross-defendant in this multiparty construction defect case involving over $500,000 in alleged costs of repair. The trial court proposed a case management order (the order) that, among other things, deemed the matter to be complex within the meaning of standard 3.10 of the California Standards of Judicial Administration for Complex Litigation and appointed an…
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