Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2020, Volume 33, Number 2
Content
- A Long and Winding Road to Undo Bad Supreme Court Law
- Affirmative Action Quandaries the Affirmative Action Puzzle: a Living History from Reconstruction to Today (Pantheon:322 Pages) By Melvin I. Urofsky
- Editor's Foreword Sweet Successes — On or About 31 Flavors
- From Cla's Ceo a Personal Plea for Addressing the Root Causes of Racism
- From the Section Chair News for a New World
- Insurance Coverage Analysis Avoids Malpractice Landmines
- Intellectual Property Litigation and Other Updates in the Video Game Industry as of April 2020
- Masthead
- MCLE Article Threats, Extortion and Legitimate Advocacy
- Navigating the New Settled Statement Procedures
- Nuts and Bolts of Videoconference Dispute Resolution in the Time of Covid-19
- Showing Lack of Probable Cause: Plaintiff's Burden of Proof in Opposing an Anti-Slapp Motion Attacking a Malicious Prosecution Claim
- Stringfellow Acid Pits: the Toxic and Legal Legacy By Brian Craig
- Table of Contents
- That Family Is Wrong for You: Religious Objections Before the Supreme Court
- The Puzzle of Precedent in the California Court of Appeal
- Recent Legislative Changes Affect Long-Standing Pre-Trial Discovery Practice
Recent Legislative Changes Affect Long-Standing Pre-Trial Discovery Practice
By Hon. Allan Goodman, Judge of the Superior Court (Ret.)
Hon. Allan Goodman, now an arbitrator, mediator, and discovery referee with ADR Services, Inc., was a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge and periodically an Associate Justice Pro Tem on the Second District Court of Appeal from 1995 through 2019. JudgeGoodman@ADRServices.com
Two legislative changes made in 2019 have immediate impact on pre-trial discovery practice in California state courts. The first affects how lawyers respond to pre-trial requests for production of documents. The second, initially a more modest change, may be the harbinger of far greater changes in discovery practices, changes which eventually may align discovery practices in state courts with those long required in federal court civil actions. (See Fed. Rules Civ.Proc., rule 26, 28 U.S.C.)