MAGALLANES v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. B006504.

167 Cal.App.3d 878 (1985)

213 Cal. Rptr. 547

PATRICIA MAGALLANES, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; E.R. SQUIBB & SONS, INC., et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

May 3, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Schlifkin & Papell, Robert S. Schlifkin and Steven J. Kleifield for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Haight, Dickson, Brown & Bonesteel, Robert L. Dickson, Steven L. Hoch, Ralph A. Campillo, Debra E. Pole, Robert L. Kaufman, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Richard J. Heafey, Peter W. Davis, James C. Martin, Overton, Lyman & Prince, Laurence H. Schnabel, Stephen E. Traverse, Donald B. Caffray, Gary D. Fields, Burris, Karp & Mooney, Donald S. Burris, Adams, Duque & Hazeltine, Richard T. Davis, Jr., Gantz & Forer, Steven B. Stevens, Chase, Rotchford, Drukker & Bogust, Howard A. Slavin, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, G. Edward Fitzgerald and Eric C. McCurdy for Real Parties in Interest.

Michael J. Breining and David G. Owen as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

DANIELSON, J.

(1a) The question presented by this petition for writ of mandate is whether punitive damages may be awarded in a case based on the market share theory of liability enunciated in Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories (1980) 26 Cal.3d 588 [163 Cal.Rptr. 132, 607 P.2d 924, 2 A.L.R...

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