SPECTRA-PHYSICS, INC. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. H003755.

198 Cal.App.3d 1487 (1988)

244 Cal. Rptr. 258

SPECTRA-PHYSICS, INC., Petitioner v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Respondent. TELEDYNE, INC., et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District.

February 4, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Rene Tatro, Jonathan S. Leo and Monika P. Lee for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Landels, Ripley & Diamond, John F. Barg, Robert R. Klotz, Tyndall, Smoger, Mann & Ramirez and Gerson H. Smoger for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

AGLIANO, P.J.

The issue in this case is whether, in preparing for a hearing to determine the good faith of a sliding scale settlement under Code of Civil Procedure Section 877.6, the settling parties may depose counsel for the nonsettling defendants to inquire whether the nonsettling defendants may have been guilty of bad faith or unreasonable conduct which impeded the settlement process and thereby made a lower settlement...

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