VALENTINO v. ELLIOTT SAV-ON GAS, INC.

Docket No. B019773.

201 Cal.App.3d 692 (1988)

247 Cal. Rptr. 483

JUDITH VALENTINO, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ELLIOTT SAV-ON GAS, INC., Defendant and Respondent.

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

May 24, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Jerome H. Sklerov for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Thomas & Elliott and Dennis Neil Jones for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

JOHNSON, J.

In this case, we confront a fundamental issue in the interpretation of California's settlement incentive scheme. May costs be shifted against a prevailing party who rejected a statutory settlement offer (under Code Civ. Proc., § 998)1 that would have required this party to forego other lawsuits as well as dismissing the one involved in the case at trial? The trial court answered...

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