Litigation
Cal. Litig. VOLUME 37, ISSUE 2, AUGUST 2024
Content
- A Drink With Perry
- Chair's Farewell: a Look Back At the 2023-24 Term
- Courtroom or Conference Room: Considerations For Jury Trials V. Arbitration
- Editor's Foreword: We Thank and Excuse Paul Dubow
- Inside This Issue
- Interview With United States District Judge Rita F. Lin
- McLe Audits
- PAST SECTION CHAIRS & EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
- Proposition 65: the Ubiquitous, Yet Invisible Litigation
- SECTION OFFICERS & EDITORIAL BOARD
- Socrates's Trial
- Survival Actions After the 2021 Amendment To Code of Civil Procedure Section 377.34:
- Table of Contents
- The Shrinking Shelter of Relief From Jury Trial Waivers
- Understanding Key Distinctions In California State and Federal Privilege Law
- Your Face Belongs To Us: a Secretive Startup's Quest To End Privacy As We Know It
- The Civil Case Against O.J. Simpson
THE CIVIL CASE AGAINST O.J. SIMPSON
RUFO V. SIMPSON (2001) 86 CAL.APP.4TH 573
Written by Justice (Ret.) J. Gary Hastings*
With the recent death of Orenthal James Simpson (O.J.) and the upcoming battle which will unfold regarding O.J.’s estate, I thought it appropriate to review the underlying civil case which resulted in a $33.5 million verdict against O.J.
On June 13, 1994, the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found outside her Brentwood residence. O.J., Nicole’s former husband, became the focus of investigation and on June 17, 1994, he was charged with the murders. He agreed to turn himself in but when he didn’t show, the authorities went looking for him. He was in a white Ford Bronco heading south with his friend Al Cowlings. A lengthy slow-motion chase ensued, and he was finally arrested. His trial began on November 9, 1994, and ended with his acquittal on October 3, 1995, after the jury deliberated only four hours.