Supreme Court of California

The terms of a compromise and release executed in a worker's compensation proceeding, releasing "all claims and causes of action" relating to the injury, extend to an action under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act for damages relating to the same events that resulted in the injury.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/01/2002
• Published 07/01/2002

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Law Offices of Leo James Terrell, Leo James Terrell and Rebecca J. Riley, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Appellant., Knapp, Petersen & Clarke, André E. Jardine and Anastasia M. Baumeister, Glendale, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David S. Chaney, Assistant Attorney General, Angela Sierra and Silvia M. Diaz, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents., Hill, Farrer & Burrill, Suzanne J. Holland and Warren J. Higgins, Los Angeles, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.