California Court of Appeal

Judgment in favor of plaintiffs, in case involving rollover of Ford explorer that left plaintiff wife a paraplegic and deprived plaintiff husband of consortium, and multimillion dollar award to plaintiffs, is conditionally reversed to the extent noneconomic and punitive damages are excessive and must be reduced, and affirmance is conditioned on plaintiffs' agreement to reductions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/19/2006
• Published 07/19/2006

Judges

• NARES, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., William E. Thomson, Los Angeles, Eileen M. Ahern and Theodore B. Olson, for Defendants and Appellants., Arnold & Porter, Ronald C. Redcay, Los Angeles, Murray R. Garnick, Robert A. McCarter;  National Chamber Litigation Center, Robin S. Conrad and Amar D. Sarwal, for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Mayer Brown and Donald M. Falk, Palo Alto, for the Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Steven L. Mayer, Keith D. Kessler, San Francisco;  Schoville & Arnell, Dennis A. Schoville, Louis G. Arnell, San Diego, and James S. Iagmin, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.