56 Cal. App. 4th 91 - Bennett v. Suncloud’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 33 Cal. 3d 211 - Tiernan v. Trustees of California State University and Colleges · 123 Cal. App. 2d 18 - Rubino v. Utah Canning Co. · 221 Cal. App. 3d 1224 - Clausing v. San Francisco Unified School District · In Re the Marriage of Ananeh-Firempong · 25 Cal. App. 4th 772 - Goldrich v. Natural Y Surgical Specialties, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“entails review of the trial court's ruling, not its rationale. Thus, even if the trial court ... were constrained by its prior rulings ..., [an appellate court is] not so constrained and [is] free to render an opinion based on the correct rule of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“after the specified causes of action were amended, [the defendant] was free to demur to those causes of action on any ground.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“decision to render judgment on the entire complaint and not just the three amended causes of action was improper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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