GAWARA v. UNITED STATES BRASS CORP.

Docket No. D019948.

63 Cal.App.4th 1341 (1998)

REUBEN S. GAWARA et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. UNITED STATES BRASS CORPORATION et al., Defendants, Cross-defendants and Appellants; COLES DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, INC., et al., Cross-complainants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

April 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich, Marcelle E. Mihaila, Terry D. Ross, Barbara J. Orr, James T. Hannink and Kathryn E. Karcher for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

McInnis, Fitzgerald, Rees & Sharkey, Thomas E. Sharkey, Ralph W. Peters, Fabris, Burgess & Ring, David D. Ring, James H. Duncan, Jr., Deborah A. Daniloff, Russell J. Brubaker, Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, Robert G. Steiner, R. William Bowen, Lawrence J. Kouns, Richard R. Spirra, Coughlan, Semmer & Lipman, Robert F. Semmer, Judy M. Marolt, Seltzer, Caplan, Wilkins & McMahon, Michael G. Nardi, Tamara L. Reed, Donald A. English, Sullivan, Hill, Lewin, Rez, Engel & LaBazzo, Jeffrey D. Lewin, Candace M. Carroll, Maria Fuchs, Higgs, Fletcher & Mack, John Morris, Kasowitz, Hoff, Benson, Torres & Friedman, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, Michael M. Fay and Paul M. O'Connor III for Defendants, Cross-defendants and Appellants.

Lorber, Volk, Greenfield & Blick, Lorber, Greenfield & Blick, Joyia Z. Greenfield, Jill Ann Herman, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Kent L. Richland, Marc J. Poster, Carolyn Oill and Shelley Levine for Cross-complainants and Appellants.


[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]

OPINION

KREMER, P.J.

This litigation involves polybutylene plumbing which was installed in homes in Briarwood Pointe (Briarwood) and leaked in the majority of the homes. A jury awarded the Briarwood homeowners $316,977 in compensatory damages1 against the manufacturers and sellers of the plumbing parts and plumbing system...

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