California Court of Appeal

Failure of law firms, and lawyers in those firms, to prove they were intended third party beneficiaries of a contract containing an arbitration clause, justified denial of a request to refer the matter to arbitration.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/21/2002
• Published 10/21/2002

Judges

• AURELIO MUNOZ, J.*

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  O'Melveny & Myers, James W. Colbert III and Paula E. Ambrosini, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Appellants Bryan Cave and Lynn K. Thompson., Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro, Patricia L. Glaser, Mark G. Krum, Los Angeles, and Stephen Y. Ma;  Arnold & Porter, and Shauna Avrith for Defendants and Appellants Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Richard Ben-Veniste, Robert C. Odle, Jr., Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Alan E. Friedman and Gregory D. Schetina, Los Angeles, for Plaintiffs and Respondents City of Hope, City of Hope National Medical Center, and Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope.