Hart v. Keenan Properties, Inc. ( 2020 )


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  •         IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
    CALIFORNIA
    FRANK C. HART et al.,
    Plaintiffs and Respondents,
    v.
    KEENAN PROPERTIES, INC.,
    Defendant and Appellant.
    S253295
    First Appellate District, Division Five
    A152692
    Alameda County Superior Court
    RG16838191
    May 21, 2020
    Justice Corrigan authored the opinion of the Court, in which
    Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye and Justices Chin, Liu, Cuéllar,
    Kruger, and Groban concurred.
    HART v. KEENAN PROPERTIES, INC.,
    S253295
    Opinion of the Court by Corrigan, J.
    We granted review to determine whether a company’s
    name and logo appearing on an invoice can constitute hearsay.
    Under the facts presented, a witness’s observation of the name
    and logo was circumstantial evidence of identity, not proof of the
    truth of matters asserted in the document. Because the
    observation was not offered for a hearsay purpose, defendant’s
    hearsay objection was properly rejected.
    I. FACTS
    After Frank Hart developed mesothelioma, he and his
    wife, Cynthia, sued Keenan Properties, Inc. (Keenan) and other
    entities involved in the distribution and use of pipes containing
    asbestos. Only Keenan’s liability is at issue, and turns on
    whether sufficient evidence shows it was the source of the pipes.
    From September 1976 to March 1977, Hart installed pipes
    for Christeve Corporation (Christeve) in McKinleyville. His job
    involved cutting and beveling asbestos-cement pipe
    manufactured by the Johns-Manville Corporation (Johns-
    Manville). Although the process released dust, Hart worked
    without respiratory protection.
    Keenan Pipe and Supply, a wholesale distributor, sold
    asbestos-cement pipe between 1965 and 1983. In 1977, it
    changed its name to Keenan Supply. The logo for both Keenan
    Pipe and Supply and Keenan Supply was the letter “K” drawn
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    to resemble a straight pipe and an angled pipe, enclosed in a
    circle.1 Successor Keenan retained no sales records or invoices
    from the relevant period. Its representative testified the
    company logo was originally rendered in green and white, then
    changed in the 1970s to red and white. The witness also
    acknowledged what appeared to be a copy of a Keenan invoice,
    which bore Keenan’s name and logo. He agreed that Keenan
    would have sent a sales invoice to its customers.
    Christeve’s bookkeeper, Olga Mitrovich, testified that
    when Christeve closed in 2001, she retained no documents
    related to the McKinleyville project. She remembered the logo
    of Keenan Pipe and Supply as “the K with a circle around it.”
    Asked why, she replied: “Because I know that we dealt with
    them, and [the logo] was unique, and I like it.”
    Foreman John Glamuzina was Hart’s supervisor from
    January to March 1977.2 He was familiar with asbestos-cement
    1
    In 1983, Keenan Supply sold its name and most of its
    assets to Hajoca Corporation, which continues to use Keenan’s
    logo:
    (Keenan Supply | Eureka, CA  [as
    of May 21, 2020]. All internet citations in this opinion are
    archived by year, docket number and case name at
    .)
    2
    Glamuzina was unavailable at the time of trial. The jury
    was shown video clips from his deposition testimony. (Evid.
    Code, § 1291); all further statutory references are to the
    Evidence Code.)
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    pipe, and recalled that it was used on the McKinleyville project.
    Glamuzina explained: “[T]here would be different invoices to
    sign when the truckers would come up with a load.” When he
    received materials delivered to the worksite, he “would just
    check the load for my eight-inch pipe, shorts or whatever came
    on the pipe, that’s all I would check on that.” He would also
    check the invoices to make sure the supplies listed matched
    what was being delivered. If the information was correct, he
    signed the invoice and retained a copy, which he turned in to the
    site office. He did remember seeing the name “Keenan” on
    invoices but could not “recall exactly” how Keenan’s name was
    printed or how many times he saw the name on invoices. He
    testified he did not see names of any other suppliers and
    explained that “[w]hen you’re working out in the field, you’re in
    a hurry . . . .” When asked why “Keenan sticks out in your
    mind,” he replied: “Just the way the — their K and stuff is all
    — I don’t know.”
    Keenan moved to exclude any reference by Glamuzina to
    Keenan invoices. It argued, inter alia, that any reference to
    “Keenan” on the invoices constituted inadmissible hearsay.3
    The court rejected Keenan’s hearsay argument, giving two
    reasons. First it held the evidence was not hearsay but merely
    circumstantial evidence of identity. Second, even if hearsay, the
    evidence fell under an exception as the statement of a party
    opponent. It admitted Glamuzina’s testimony as to the name
    and logo he saw printed on the invoices given to him when pipes
    3
    Keenan also argued that the invoices did not exist, and if
    they did exist, they were not authenticated.
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    were delivered. Keenan did not request a limiting instruction
    on the permissible consideration of Glamuzina’s testimony.
    The jury returned a plaintiff’s verdict, with a special
    finding that Hart was exposed to asbestos from pipe supplied by
    Keenan. Following apportionment of fault and settlements by
    other defendants, a judgment of $1,626,517.82 was entered
    against Keenan.
    The Court of Appeal reversed, concluding Glamuzina’s
    descriptions of the invoices were hearsay. (Hart v. Keenan
    Properties, Inc. (2018) 
    29 Cal.App.5th 203
    , 213.) We apply a
    different analysis to that question and reverse the judgment of
    the Court of Appeal.
    II. DISCUSSION
    Hearsay is an out-of-court statement offered to prove the
    truth of its content.4 (People v. Sanchez (2016) 
    63 Cal.4th 665
    ,
    674.) Section 225 defines the term “statement” as either “oral
    or written verbal expression” or “nonverbal conduct of a person
    intended by him as a substitute for oral or written verbal
    expression.” Verbal expression means “relating to, or expressed
    in words.” (Garner, Dict. of Modern American Usage (1998) p.
    676; see also Black’s Law Dict. (11th ed. 2019) p. 1870.) Non-
    verbal expression refers to “conduct intended as a substitute for
    the actual use of words.” (People v. Gonzalez (2017) 
    2 Cal.5th 1138
    , 1143, fn. omitted.) A document is generally a form of
    written verbal expression. If it is prepared before trial and
    offered to prove the truth of the words it contains, it is hearsay.
    4
    “ ‘Hearsay evidence’ is evidence of a statement that was
    made other than by a witness while testifying at the hearing and
    that is offered to prove the truth of the matter stated.” (§ 1200.)
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    As noted, the trial court relied on alternate theories to
    admit Glamuzina’s testimony about the content of the invoices.
    First, it concluded that Glamuzina did not convey hearsay,
    because the name and logo were not offered to prove the truth
    of any statement contained in the invoice. Instead, his
    observations were circumstantial evidence of Keenan’s identity
    as the source of the pipes. Based on the facts here, the court was
    correct. As a result, we do not further consider the alternative
    basis for its ruling.
    A. Relevance When Not Offered for Truth of
    Content
    “When evidence that certain words were spoken or written
    is admitted to prove that the words were uttered [or written]
    and not to prove their truth, the evidence is not hearsay. (People
    v. Smith[ (2002)] 
    179 Cal.App.4th 986
    , 1003 . . . .) (Text cited
    with approval in People v. Armstrong [ (2019)] 
    6 Cal.5th 735
    , 786
    . . . .) ‘The first and most basic requirement for applying the not-
    for-the-truth limitation . . . is that the out-of-court statement
    must be offered for some purpose independent of the truth of the
    matters it asserts. That means that the statement must be
    capable of serving its nonhearsay purpose regardless of whether
    the jury believes the matters asserted to be true. [Citations.]’
    (People v. Hopson [(2017)] 
    3 Cal.5th 424
    , 432 . . . .)” (Simons,
    Cal. Evid. Manual (2020) Hearsay Evidence, § 2:5, p. 84.) For
    example, suppose A hit B after B said, “You’re stupid.” B’s out-
    of-court statement asserts that A is stupid. If those words are
    offered to prove that A is, indeed, stupid, they constitute hearsay
    and would be inadmissible unless they fell under a hearsay
    exception. However, those same words might be admissible for
    a non-hearsay purpose: to prove that A had a motive to assault
    B. The distinction turns not on the words themselves, but what
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    they are offered to prove. The concept can prove analytically
    elusive when the words themselves also make an assertion. (See
    1 Witkin, Cal. Evidence (5th ed. 2018) Hearsay, § 37, p. 832
    [“The distinction between these two uses of the evidence is not
    always readily apparent”].) If the words are admitted for a non-
    hearsay purpose the jury is not allowed to consider the truth of
    any substantive assertion, and is often instructed to that effect.
    Otherwise competent evidence must also be relevant. So,
    the non-truth purpose for which a statement is offered must be
    relevant. Evidence is relevant if it has a “tendency in reason to
    prove or disprove any disputed fact that is of consequence to the
    determination of the action.” (§ 210.) Documents and other
    items found at a location may be relevant to show a person has
    a connection with that place. People v. Goodall (1982) 
    131 Cal.App.3d 129
     held that various items, including documents,
    were admissible to show Goodall was linked to a home where
    drugs were manufactured. Evidence recovered at the site
    included a summons, various receipts, and Goodall’s driver’s
    license, as well as photographs of her at the residence. The court
    held that the documents were relevant regardless of the truth of
    their content. “Without considering the documents for the truth
    of the matter stated therein, it is relevant that documents
    bearing appellant’s name or other items reasonably identifiable
    as appellant’s were found at the residence. . . . The jury could
    infer that these items would not have been so located unless
    [Goodall]” had sufficient connection with the site to exercise
    control or was aware of the illicit activity there. (Id. at p. 143.)
    The Harts rely principally on the similar case of People v.
    Williams (1992) 
    3 Cal.App.4th 1535
     (Williams). Williams
    sought to establish standing to challenge an apartment search
    by offering proof he lived there. He called the searching officer
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    who had recovered a fishing license and a paycheck made out to
    him. Both documents, bearing the defendant’s name and the
    apartment address, were recovered from a dresser in the
    bedroom where contraband was found. “The trial court opined
    that the documents were being offered for the truth of the
    matter being asserted therein — i.e., that the defendant lived at
    the apartment, as indicated by the address on the license and on
    the checks.”5 (Id. at p. 1541, fn. omitted.)
    The Court of Appeal rejected that analysis. It explained
    that even if the documents had not contained the address of the
    searched apartment, “the fishing license and two checks at issue
    here are more likely to be found in the residence of the person
    named on those documents than in the residence of any other
    person.” (Williams, supra, 3 Cal.App.4th at p. 1542.) In other
    words, the license and checks were not admitted to prove what
    the defendant’s name was, that he was permitted to fish in
    California waters, or that the issuers of the checks paid him
    money in a certain amount. Instead, the fact that documents
    bearing his name were found at the apartment was relevant on
    a different point. They tended to support an inference that the
    person named lived there. The items were “circumstantial
    evidence that a person with the same name as the defendant
    resided in the apartment from which they were seized.” (Ibid.)
    In Goodall and Williams the documents were relevant
    regardless of their truth. It was the presence of the documents,
    not the truth of their content, that linked those defendants to
    the residences. Even if the documents bore false aliases, they
    could still be evidence of the disputed link, if it could be
    5
    A second check made out to Williams was also found, but
    apparently did not bear his address.
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    established that Goodall and Williams used those false names.
    The documents were offered to prove the link, not the truth of
    the words on them. The same inference of a link could be drawn
    from the presence of items containing no hearsay at all, like a
    distinctive ring belonging to Goodall or a photo of Williams with
    his mother.
    Here the disputed fact was whether Keenan supplied
    pipes for the McKinleyville project. To prove that fact, plaintiffs
    had to establish a link between Keenan and the pipes
    Glamuzina recalled being delivered. The appearance of the
    name and logo was relevant for that purpose, even if the
    company name and logo were not expressive of Keenan’s
    identity as the source. If Keenan did not use its name and had
    no logo, the appearance of a document that could be shown to be
    theirs would be relevant evidence if offered to prove the link.
    Suppose that Glamuzina testified that the pipes were
    accompanied by a document bearing the legend: “Best Pipes On
    The Planet,” and the company representative testified that
    Keenan printed that slogan on their invoices. That evidence,
    taken together would have a tendency in reason to prove the
    disputed link. The words would not be admissible to prove that
    Keenan’s pipes were the best on Earth, as the slogan asserted.
    They would, however, be admissible as circumstantial evidence
    that the pipes that were delivered along with the identified
    invoice came from Keenan. The inference would be valid
    regardless of whether the assertion in the slogan is true. It is
    the combination of some characteristic that makes the document
    identifiable and the independent evidence connecting Keenan to
    the identifiable document that establishes the link. The fact
    that the point of identification is words is not sufficient to make
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    the words hearsay, unless the words are offered to prove the
    truth of their content.
    Here the link between Keenan and the pipes does not
    depend on the word “Keenan” being a true statement that
    Keenan supplied the pipes. Instead, the link relies on several
    circumstances demonstrated by the evidence. The foreman
    testified that when the pipes were delivered, he was given an
    invoice bearing Keenan’s name and logo and that the invoice
    matched the load delivered. Bookkeeper Mitrovich testified she
    would not pay for a delivery without receiving paperwork from
    the foreman. Keenan’s representative identified its logo and
    testified that it was printed on Keenan invoices. He also
    confirmed the practice of providing an invoice to customers.
    Taken together, the evidence was relevant to prove the disputed
    link between Keenan and the pipes, regardless of the content
    the words on the invoice might otherwise have asserted.
    B. Other Arguments by Keenan
    Keenan objects that the actual documents Glamuzina
    described were not available, and that their contents were not
    authenticated as required by section 1401. Those arguments
    are unavailing. The absence of a document does not always
    preclude admission of its contents. Although, generally, “oral
    testimony is not admissible to prove the content of a writing”
    (§ 1523, subd. (a)), such secondary evidence may be admitted “if
    the proponent does not have possession or control of a copy of
    the writing and the original is lost or has been destroyed without
    fraudulent intent on the part of the proponent of the evidence.”
    (Id., subd. (b).) Here, the Harts never possessed the documents
    and were not responsible for their destruction.
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    “Authentication is to be determined by the trial court as a
    preliminary fact (§ 403, subd. (a)(3)) and is statutorily defined
    as ‘the introduction of evidence sufficient to sustain a finding
    that it is the writing that the proponent of the evidence claims
    it is’ . . . (§ 1400).” (People v. Goldsmith (2014) 
    59 Cal.4th 258
    ,
    266.) “Essentially, what is necessary is a prima facie case. ‘As
    long as the evidence would support a finding of authenticity, the
    writing is admissible. The fact conflicting inferences can be
    drawn regarding authenticity goes to the document’s weight as
    evidence, not its admissibility.’ ” (Id. at p. 267.) “The
    determination regarding the sufficiency of the foundational
    evidence is a matter left to the court’s discretion. [Citation.]
    Such determinations will not be disturbed on appeal unless an
    abuse of discretion is shown.” (People v. Brooks (2017) 
    3 Cal.5th 1
    , 47.)
    “The means of authenticating a writing are not limited to
    those specified in the Evidence Code. [Citations.] For example,
    a writing can be authenticated by circumstantial evidence and
    by its contents.” (People v. Skiles (2011) 
    51 Cal.4th 1178
    , 1187
    (Skiles).) Section 1410 clarifies: “Nothing in this article shall
    be construed to limit the means by which a writing may be
    authenticated or proved.” In People v. Gibson (2001) 
    90 Cal.App.4th 371
     (Gibson), manuscripts describing a prostitution
    enterprise were found in the appellant’s hotel room and her
    home. The Court of Appeal acknowledged that “[t]here was no
    evidence presented that appellant actually wrote or typed either
    manuscript, nor were any fingerprints obtained from either
    document.” (Id. at p. 382.) However, circumstantial evidence
    properly authenticated the manuscripts. “There are clear
    references to the author being ‘Sasha,’ one of appellant’s aliases.
    The evidence clearly showed that appellant was operating as a
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    madam, that the manuscripts discussed the prostitution
    business, and that the locations where these items were seized
    were each a residence of appellant. Moreover, no evidence
    showed that these items belonged to anyone else.” (Id. at p.
    383.)   We note here that authentication is a threshold
    admissibility question for the court, which may look to the
    document’s content. Whether the trier of fact can consider the
    content of an admitted document for its truth in resolving a
    disputed fact is a separate question.
    Here, evidence showed Keenan was in the business of
    selling asbestos-cement pipe and did business with Christeve.
    One of Glamuzina’s duties was to check invoices.         His
    description of the logo was consistent with the exemplar of a
    Keenan invoice that its representative acknowledged. The
    foundation for authenticity was sufficient.
    Keenan seems to assert the invoices could be
    authenticated only by someone associated with Keenan. It
    urges that Glamuzina was not a party-opponent and “cannot
    stand in as a surrogate for Keenan.” The argument fails.
    Glamuzina’s testimony did not purport to make representations
    on Keenan’s behalf. Rather, he conveyed his own observations
    of documents he reviewed when the pipes were delivered.
    (People v. Veamatahau (2020) 
    9 Cal.5th 16
    , 27.) Although
    testimony by Keenan’s agent would have been another way to
    authenticate the invoices, it was not the only way.
    Keenan also questions the trial court’s reliance on
    Glamuzina’s testimony, for several reasons. First, it states the
    evidence was provided by “an 81-year-old witness burdened by
    all the fallibility of human memory,” and notes that the
    testimony related to events occurring 40 years earlier. A
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    witness’s memory and credibility may affect how a court
    exercises its discretion, but it was for the trial court to evaluate
    Glamuzina’s demeanor and testimony in deciding whether a
    preliminary fact had been adequately demonstrated.
    Second, Keenan complains Glamuzina did not explain
    what he meant by “their K and stuff.” However, there was
    evidence that Keenan used a distinctive K logo which continues
    in use today and which bookkeeper Mitrovich described as
    “unique.” It was not unreasonable to infer Glamuzina was
    referring to the K logo acknowledged by Keenan’s
    representative.
    Third, Keenan asserts there were dissimilarities between
    Glamuzina’s testimony and the invoice exemplar. In particular,
    when asked what information was on the invoices, Glamuzina
    responded, “[W]hat [the trucker] had on his load, and I’d just
    double-check it, see — usually it tells you where it came from.
    That’s all.” Asked what he meant by “where it came from,” he
    responded, “What plant or — stuff like that . . . .” Keenan notes
    that the sample of a Keenan invoice does not identify a “plant.”
    The exemplar does, however, include a street address in Los
    Angeles and lists various cities where Keenan apparently had
    offices. It is not clear what Glamuzina meant by “plant.” But
    whatever ambiguity or dissimilarity is reflected in his
    recollection again goes to weight, not admissibility. The trial
    court’s conclusion that the foundational evidence of authenticity
    was sufficient was neither arbitrary nor capricious.
    Fourth, Keenan claims Glamuzina’s testimony was
    inconsistent with the Harts’ trial theory that the presence of a
    Keenan branch near the McKinleyville worksite supported the
    conclusion that the pipe was theirs. Asked how Christeve
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    ordered materials for the McKinleyville job, Glamuzina said
    Christeve’s owner “would order his pipe down in Southern
    California and whatever they did to get it to up north.” He was
    then asked, “So to the best of your understanding, he ordered
    from someone in Southern California, and Keenan was
    delivering it to the jobsite in Northern California?” Glamuzina
    confirmed that understanding. Subsequently asked whether
    the owner “would get supplies from Southern California,”
    Glamuzina responded, “He would order pipe . . . down there, and
    it would always come from up north or wherever we were
    working, it would always come from a different place.” It is not
    clear that Glamuzina’s testimony was inconsistent with the
    Harts’ reliance on the proximity of a Keenan branch to the
    worksite. But regardless of how any inconsistency might be
    weighed by the jury, it does not follow that the trial court abused
    its discretion in finding a preliminary showing of authenticity.
    In addition to challenging the adequacy of Glamuzina’s
    testimony, Keenan contends contrary evidence precludes a
    finding of adequate authentication. It cites other invoices
    showing that Johns-Manville sold asbestos-cement pipe to
    Christeve and shipped it to the McKinleyville site. The court
    admitted two invoices from Johns-Manville to Christeve and a
    letter from Christeve to Johns-Manville, based on Olga
    Mitrovich’s recognition of handwriting on those items, but it
    excluded other Johns-Manville invoices.          According to
    Glamuzina, more than 60,000 feet of asbestos-cement pipe was
    installed at the McKinleyville site. While relevant, evidence
    that a different company supplied asbestos-cement pipe to the
    worksite does not preclude an inference that Keenan did as well.
    Keenan also relies on various cases to argue the
    authentication evidence was inadequate. It relies principally on
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    Osborne v. Todd Farm Service (2016) 
    247 Cal.App.4th 43
    .
    Osborne was injured while moving hay bales. She sought to
    establish that Berrington, a hay supplier, had sold a particular
    bale to Todd Farm Service. The trial court rejected the
    plaintiff’s offer to testify that she saw a delivery person from
    Todd Farm Service with a receipt identifying Berrington as the
    supplier of the bale. The Court of Appeal upheld the ruling. It
    noted the plaintiff did not possess the receipt, no other witness
    claimed to have seen it, and Todd Farm Service, “the alleged
    source of the document, testified that no such receipt ever
    existed. [Todd] did not segregate hay in his barn by supplier
    and he did not document the supplier of hay included in any
    delivery. Based on this evidence, it was well within the trial
    court’s discretion to find that [the plaintiff] failed to prove the
    preliminary facts necessary to admit her testimony about the
    delivery receipt into evidence.” (Id. at p. 53.)
    This case is different from Osborne, where all evidence
    except the plaintiff’s recollection showed no such receipt ever
    existed. In contrast, Keenan admitted it sent invoices and
    acknowledged an exemplar with a Keenan logo on it. Reviewing
    invoices was one of Glamuzina’s responsibilities, which lends
    weight to his recollection of how the invoices looked. In addition,
    the invoices were seen at a worksite accompanying a delivery of
    asbestos-cement pipe, a product Keenan sold.               Osborne
    concluded only that the trial court in that case did not abuse its
    discretion in excluding the evidence. That holding does not
    preclude a different court, faced with some but not all of the
    circumstances present in Osborne, from exercising its discretion
    differently.
    Finally, Keenan argues that other cases suggest a
    document cannot be authenticated if there is no copy before the
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    court and only one witness testifies to seeing the document. It
    points to Skiles, 
    supra,
     51 Cal.4th at page 1182; People ex rel.
    Harris v. Sarpas (2014) 
    225 Cal.App.4th 1539
    , 1570-1571;
    Gibson, supra, 90 Cal.App.4th at page 379; and Young v.
    Sorenson (1975) 
    47 Cal.App.3d 911
    , 915-916. Those cases do not
    sweep as broadly as Keenan contends. As noted, section 1523,
    subdivision (b) provides that the contents of a writing may be
    proven by oral testimony when the proponent does not have a
    copy and “the original is lost or has been destroyed without
    fraudulent intent on the part of the proponent of the evidence.”
    The statute does not impose any additional evidentiary
    requirement. The strength of authenticity evidence in other
    cases does not establish the trial court abused its discretion
    here.
    III. DISPOSITION
    The judgment is reversed and the matter remanded to the
    Court of Appeal for consideration of other contentions left
    unresolved.
    CORRIGAN, J.
    We Concur:
    CANTIL-SAKAUYE, C. J.
    CHIN, J.
    LIU, J.
    CUÉLLAR, J.
    KRUGER, J.
    GROBAN, J.
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    See next page for addresses and telephone numbers for counsel who argued in Supreme Court.
    Name of Opinion Hart v. Keenan Properties, Inc.
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    Unpublished Opinion
    Original Appeal
    Original Proceeding
    Review Granted XXX 
    29 Cal.App.5th 203
    Rehearing Granted
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    Opinion No. S253295
    Date Filed: May 21, 2020
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    Court: Superior
    County: Alameda
    Judge: Brad Seligman
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    Counsel:
    CMBG3 Law, W. Joseph Gunter and Gilliam F. Stewart for Defendant and Appellant.
    Maune Raichle Hartley French & Mudd, David L. Amell, Marissa Y. Uchimura; Kazan, McClain, Satterly
    & Greenwood, Denyse F. Clancy and Ted W. Pelletier for Plaintiffs and Respondents.
    The Arkin Law Firm and Sharon J. Arkin for Consumer Attorneys of California as Amicus Curiae on
    behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.
    Counsel who argued in Supreme Court (not intended for publication with opinion):
    W. Joseph Gunter
    CMBG3 Law LLP
    100 Spectrum Center Drive, Suite 820
    Irvine, CA 92618
    (949) 467-9500
    Denyse F. Clancy
    Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood
    55 Harrison Street, Suite 400
    Oakland, CA 94607
    (510) 302-1000
    

Document Info

Docket Number: S253295

Filed Date: 5/21/2020

Precedential Status: Precedential

Modified Date: 5/21/2020