HIGDON v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket Nos. F014568, F014569.

227 Cal.App.3d 1667 (1991)

278 Cal. Rptr. 588

DALLIS I. HIGDON, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KERN COUNTY, Respondent; LAURA L. HIGDON, Real Party in Interest. STEPHEN LEWIS, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KERN COUNTY, Respondent; JEAN LEWIS, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

March 1, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Edward J. Thomas and Ronald P. Kaplan for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Joseph G. Giuffre, Falk & Falk and Gregory P. Falk for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

VARTABEDIAN, J.

Once a court commissioner resigns and joins a law firm, under what circumstances, if not in all instances, should the firm be disqualified from representing a party to an action which, in any contested part, was heard by the former commissioner? The instant consolidated petitions for writ of mandate present this question.

Both of the underlying actions are marital dissolution proceedings in which then...

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