RIVER WEST, INC. v. NICKEL

Docket F005322.

188 Cal.App.3d 1297 (1987)

234 Cal. Rptr. 33

RIVER WEST, INC., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. GEORGE W. NICKEL, JR., Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

January 27, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, John L. Endicott, Joel A. Feuer, Selvin & Weiner and Paul P. Selvin for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Alschuler, Grossman & Pines, Melvyn B. Fliegel and Debra A. Stegura as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Ball, Hunt, Hart, Brown & Baerwitz, Anthony Murray, Harmon M. Hitt, Paul R. Pearlson, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard and Lloyd Hinkelman for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

WOOLPERT, Acting P.J.

Plaintiffs appeal from a pretrial order disqualifying their counsel for conflict of interest. Some 27 to 30 years before the motion for disqualification was made, one of plaintiffs' attorneys represented an individual who now appears as a defendant in the present action. In both the old and new matters the litigation concerned water rights along the Kern River in the central valley. An issue before the...

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