SHERNOFF v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. 44439.

44 Cal.App.3d 406 (1975)

118 Cal. Rptr. 680

WILLIAM SHERNOFF et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; TITLE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY et al., Real Parties in Interest.

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

January 10, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Hafif & Shernoff, Alton H. Saxer, Stephen L. Odgers and Herbert Hafif for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

O'Melveny & Myers, Philip F. Westbrook, Jr., Charles W. Bender, Douglas L. Thorpe, John D. Dillow, Overton, Lyman & Prince, Carl J. Schuck, Samuel E. Ericsson, Bell, Boyd, Lloyd, Haddad & Burns, John T. Loughlin, John C. Christie, Jr., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Richard H. Wolford, Paul G. Bower, Richard Chernick, Rutan & Tucker, Garvin F. Shallenberger, Richard A. Curnutt, Adams, Duque & Hazeltine, John H. Brinsley, William F. Davis, Hunton, Williams, Gay & Gibson, E. Milton Farley III, John Shenefield, B. Warwick Davenport, Booth, Mitchel, Strange & Smith, Owen W. Strange, George De Lew, Milo V. Olson, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Pierce T. Selwood, Garrison, Gregory, Herndon & Townsend, Philip J. Gregory, Orrick, Herrington, Rowley & Sutcliffe, William H. Orrick, Jr., William F. Alderman, Edward B. Towey and Mary Allen for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

FLEMING, Acting P.J.

(1) Petitioners, plaintiffs in a class action for damages against numerous California title insurers on allegations of a conspiracy to fix title insurance rates, seek a writ of mandate to compel the superior court to dissolve a stay of proceedings issued in April 1973 several months after the filing of the complaint.

The superior court premised its stay on a theory of primary...

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