CASSEL v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. S178914.

51 Cal.4th 113 (2011)

MICHAEL CASSEL, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; WASSERMAN, COMDEN, CASSELMAN & PEARSON, L.L.P., et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

January 13, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Makarem & Associates, Ronald W. Makarem , Peter M. Kunstler , Jamie R. Greene ; Mink Law Firm and Lyle R. Mink for Petitioner.

Sauer & Wagner, Gerald L. Sauer and Laurie B. Hiller for John Porter and Deborah Blair Porter as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Haight Brown & Bonesteel, Peter Q. Ezzel , Nancy E. Lucas and Stephen M. Caine for Real Parties in Interest.

Robie & Matthai, Kyle Kveton and Steven Fleischman for Association of Southern California Defense Counsel as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

BAXTER, J.

In order to encourage the candor necessary to a successful mediation, the Legislature has broadly provided for the confidentiality of things spoken or written in connection with a mediation proceeding. With specified statutory exceptions, neither "evidence of anything said," nor any "writing," is discoverable or admissible "in any arbitration, administrative adjudication, civil action, or other noncriminal proceeding...

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