TORRES v. AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SO. CALIFORNIA

Docket No. S048329.

15 Cal.4th 771 (1997)

RICHARD A. TORRES, SR., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

June 2, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Higgs, Fletcher & Mack, John Morris, Gilbert, Kelly, Crowley & Jennett, Clifford H. Woosley, Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich, Marcelle E. Mihaila and Kathryn E. Karcher for Defendant and Appellant.

Hugh F. Young, Jr., Harvey M. Grossman, Kornblum Law Offices, Guy O. Kornblum, William A. Cerillo, John A. Dunning, Horvitz & Levy, Ellis J. Horvitz, Daniel J. Gonzalez and Christina J. Imre as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Thickstun & Stern, Marc O. Stern and Sean Hennessey for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Ian Herzog, Harvey R. Levine, Leonard Sacks, Douglas Devries, Roland Winkle, Robert Steinberg, Thomas G. Stolpman, William D. Turley, Mary E. Alexander, Bruce Broillet, David Casey, Jr., Tony Tanke, Leonard Esquina, Steven J. Keifield, David Rosen, Shernoff, Bidart & Darras, William M. Shernoff, Sharon J. Arkin, Seltzer & Cody, Richard A. Seltzer, Quackenbush & Quackenbush and William C. Quackenbush as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

BAXTER, J.

Civil Code section 3295, subdivision (d),1 provides in pertinent part that a court "shall, on application of any defendant, preclude the admission of evidence of that defendant's profits or financial condition until after the trier of fact returns a verdict for plaintiff awarding actual damages and finds that a defendant is guilty of malice, oppression, or fraud in accordance with Section...

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