California Court of Appeal

Plaintiff-anesthesiologists' petition for a writ of mandate, arising from two anesthesiology contracts with a hospital, is granted where: 1) plaintiffs did not agree to arbitrate disputes relating to one of the contracts; and 2) the terms of the arbitration clause in the other contract are, because of the applicable rules limiting damage remedies, unconscionable, rendering the agreement to arbitrate unenforceable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/18/2010
• Published 02/18/2010

Judges

• MOSK, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Cohen & Lord, Bruce M. Cohen, Jonathan F. Golding; John D. Harwell, for Petitioners., Lim, Ruger & Kim, Bruce G. Iwasaki and Lisa J. Yang for Real Parties In Interest, CHA Hollywood Medical Center, L.P. dba Holllywood Presbyterian Medical Center., Law Offices of Timothy B. McCaffrey, Jr. and Timothy B. McCaffrey, Jr., for Real Parties In Interest, H.P. Anesthesia Medical Group, Inc., Hyung R. Shin, Sung T. Kim, Romeo Velasco, and Sung H. Kim.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.