Khalid Iqbal KHAWAR, Plaintiff and Respondent,
v.
GLOBE INTERNATIONAL, INC., Defendant and Appellant.
Ali AHMAD, Plaintiff and Appellant,
v.
GLOBE INTERNATIONAL, INC., Defendant and Respondent.
Supreme Court of California.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
November 2, 1998.
As Modified on Denial of Rehearing December 22, 1998.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Francis C.J. Pizzulli, Santa Monica, for Plaintiff and Appellant and for Plaintiff and Respondent.
Deutsch, Levy & Engel, Paul M. Levy, Chicago, IL, Glassman & Browning, Glassman, Browning & Saltsman, Anthony Michael Glassman, Barbara Tarlow, Lori A. Nielsen, Beverly Hills, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Walter R. Allan, San Francisco, Edward P. Davis, Jr., James M. Chadwick, San Jose, Joseph R. Tiffany II, Palo Alto, David S. Winton, Caroline N. Mitchell, San Francisco, and Amy Hogue, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Appellant and for Defendant and Respondent.
William A. Niese, Karlene W. Goller, Debra Foust Bruns, Judith Fanshaw, Susan Holliday, Beth A. Finley, Los Angeles, Sandra Williams, Harold W. Fuson, Jr., La Jolla, Anne H. Egerton, Andrea Hartman, Burbank, George Freeman, Adam Liptak, Ralph Goldberg, Stephen Fuzesi, Jr., New York, NY, Thomas W. Newton, Jane Kirtley, Bernard Zimmerman, San Francisco, Davis, Wright & Tremaine, Kelli L. Sager, Los Angeles, Bruce E.H. Johnson, San Francisco, Debora K. Kristensen, Boise, ID, Karen Fredricksen, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Jonathan Bloom, Rogers & Wells, Richard N. Winfield, New York, NY, Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, J. Laurent Scharff, Sacramento, Baker & Hostetler, Bruce W. Sanford, Washington DC, Henry S. Hoberman, New York, NY, Robert Lystad, Washington DC, Steinhart & Falconer, James F. Brelsford, Roger R. Myers and Nicole A. Wong, San Francisco, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant and Defendant and Respondent.
Supreme Court of California.
KENNARD, Justice.
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