California Court of Appeal

In plaintiff's suit against the State of California and a police officer who was present at the scene of the automobile accident involving plaintiff and her friends, under the theory that her paraplegia was caused not by her friend's driving under the influence of alcohol, but by the officer's negligence, the jury verdict awarding $2,690,608 in damages to plaintiff is reversed and judgment entered in favor of the defendants as, the police officer owed no duty to plaintiff and there was no misfeasance by the officer.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2010
• Published 05/18/2010

Judges

• YEGAN, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, James M. Schiavenza, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Mark A. Bown, Deputy Attorney General, and Barbara A. Noble, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas G. Stolpman and Donna Silver; Stolpman, Krissman, Elber & Silver, for Respondent.