California Court of Appeal

Code of Civil Procedure sections 128.5 and 128.7 can apply concurrently to different kinds of misconduct, including bad faith and pleading abuses. A directly false response to discovery may qualify as a "misuse of the discovery process" subject to sanctions under section 2023(a).

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/20/2002
• Published 12/20/2002

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tarkington, O'Connor & O'Neil, Thomas C. Burch, Robert A. Roth, Pacific Palisades, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Appell & Wolf, Mervyn H. Wolf, Encino;  Marc J. Appell, Los Angeles, for Respondent.