California Court of Appeal

EISENDRATH v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (ROGERS), B164245

A protective order intended to bar discovery and evidence regarding mediation communications concerning a spousal support agreement, pursuant to Evidence Code sections 703.5 and 1115 et seq., is granted where the trial court erred in holding that plaintiff impliedly waived his right to confidentiality.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/30/2003
• Published 05/30/2003

Judges

•  CURRY, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Freid and Goldsman, Gary J. Cohen, Los Angeles;  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Edward P. Lazarus, L. Rachel Helyar, and Jonathan Gottlieb, Los Angeles, for Petitioner., Trope and Trope, Thomas Paine Dunlap and Steven Knowles, Los Angeles, for Real Party in Interest., Dunn Koes, Pamela E. Dunn and Daniel J. Koes, Pasadena, for Amici Curiae on behalf of Several Individual Mediators.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.