SANDQUIST v. LEBO AUTOMOTIVE, INC.

No. S220812.

1 Cal.5th 233 (2016)

205 Cal. Rptr. 3d 359

376 P.3d 506

TIMOTHY SANDQUIST, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. LEBO AUTOMOTIVE, INC., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

July 28, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford Heisler Kimpel , Janette Wipper , Felicia Medina ; Public Justice and F. Paul Bland, Jr. , for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Arbogast Law, David M. Arbogast ; The Bronson Firm and Steven M. Bronson for Consumer Attorneys of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Capstone Law, Glenn A. Danas ; Public Citizen Litigation Group and Scott T. Nelson for Public Citizen, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Fisher & Phillips, James J. McDonald, Jr. , Grace Y. Horoupian , Jimmie E. Johnson and Wendy McGuire Coats for Defendants and Respondents.

Holland & Knight, James W. Michalski and Jerrold J. Ganzfried for Dri-the Voice of the Defense Bar and the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

Plaintiff Timothy Sandquist and the various defendants here are parties to an arbitration agreement. A salient question is whether that agreement permits or prohibits arbitration on a classwide basis. Here we must answer a question one step removed — who decides whether the agreement permits...

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