LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST. v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. S269608.

14 Cal.5th 758 (2023)

LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; JANE DOE, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

June 1, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gutierrez, Preciado & House, Calvin House and Arthur C. Preciado for Petitioner.

Leone Alberts & Duus, Louis A. Leone and Seth L. Gordon for Northern California Regional Liability Excess Fund, Southern California Regional Liability Excess Fund, Statewide Association of Community Colleges and School Association for Excess Risk as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Meyers Fozi & Dwork, Golnar J. Fozi and Daniel S. Modafferi for Association of Schools for Cooperative Insurance Programs, Public Risk Innovation, Solutions, and Management and California Association of Joint Powers Authorities as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Jennifer B. Henning for California State Association of Counties as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Cummings, McClorey, Davis, Acho & Associates and Ryan D. Miller for Hesperia Unified School District as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondent.

Taylor & Ring, David M. Ring , Natalie L. Weatherford ; Esner, Chang & Boyer, Holly N. Boyer , Kevin K. Nguyen and Kathleen J. Becket for Real Party in Interest.

The Zalkin Law Firm and Devin M. Storey for National Center for the Victims of Crime as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.

Alan Charles Dell'Ario for Consumer Attorneys of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

Some statutory schemes provide for the recovery of treble damages, meaning that actual compensatory damages awarded to a prevailing plaintiff are multiplied by three. Here we consider a statute that, as recently amended by the Legislature, provides for up to treble damages when a plaintiff suing in tort for...

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