FORD & VLAHOS v. ITT COMMERCIAL FINANCE CORP.

Docket No. S035748.

8 Cal.4th 1220 (1994)

885 P.2d 877

36 Cal. Rptr.2d 464

FORD & VLAHOS, Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant, v. ITT COMMERCIAL FINANCE CORP., Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 15, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Kline & Joseph, Stephen L. Joseph, Richard Collier Sears, Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, William T. Bagley and Douglas J. Maloney for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant.

Christopher M. Micheli and Nancy M. McDonough as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant.

Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson, Falk & Rabkin, Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Bernard A. Burk and Matthew F. Weil for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.

Christopher E. Chenoweth as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

This case presents a narrow question of law: whether the California version of Uniform Commercial Code section 9-504, subdivision (3), definitively limits a secured party's duty to advertise the sale of collateral merely to placing a legal notice in a newspaper. We conclude it does not, and therefore reverse the Court of Appeal's judgment and remand the case for consideration of the secured party's other claims of...

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