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GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. AO19360.

141 Cal.App.3d 966 (1983)

190 Cal. Rptr. 742

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, Respondent; JOHN A. JUNGLAS, Real Party in Interest.

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

January 3, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, J. Thomas Rosch, William Bates III, Catherine Curtiss, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue and Patrick F. McCartan for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Ernest M. Thayer, Robert M. Brown and Brown & Finney for Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

SCOTT, J.

This petition by General Motors Corporation for writ of mandate (Code Civ. Proc., § 400) challenges a trial court ruling denying change of venue. It raises issues concerning where a class action may be brought and what showing must be made by a defendant seeking to change venue. We have concluded that venue in Alameda County is not proper and that the writ should issue.

The complaint, filed in Alameda...

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