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WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S.F. 23376.

17 Cal.3d 259 (1976)

551 P.2d 847

131 Cal. Rptr. 231

WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, Respondent; SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT et al., Real Parties in Interest. [And four other matters.]

Supreme Court of California.

April 27, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Moses Lasky, Robert N. Lowry, Charles B. Cohler, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Pettit, Evers & Martin, Joseph Martin, Jr., Allan J. Joseph, Oliver L. Holmes, Susan L. Paulus, Robert W. Heidrich, Alfred J. Waldchen, Edward J. Ruff, Robert M. McLeod, H. Roger McPike, Jon T. Anderson, James P. Hargarten and Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Robert D. Raven, Melvin R. Goldman, Stephen S. Dunham, Charles R. Farrar, Jr., Nelson G. Dong, Linda E. Shostak, Palmer Brown Madden, Morrison & Foerster, Malcolm Barrett, Thomas Jackson and Gerald P. Martin, Jr., for Real Parties in Interest.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

We decide five related matters that revolve around conflicting interpretations of one ambiguously worded sentence in a change of venue statute, Code of Civil Procedure section 394, subdivision (1).

The matters come to us on petitions for writs of mandate. In the action below, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) seeks damages of more than $100 million from its principal contractors, who...

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