Supreme Court of California

Bertero v. Superior Court (1963) 216 Cal.App.2d 213 is outdated and should be disapproved to the extent it holds that a party's repudiation of a contract categorically precludes it from invoking an arbitration clause therein. Thus, defendant did not waive its contractual right to arbitration and that therefore its petition to compel arbitration should have been granted.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/18/2003
• Published 12/18/2003

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  K & R Law Group, Konowiecki & Rank, Peter Roan, Los Angeles, Karen S. Fishman, Beverly Hills, Cameron H. Faber, Samuel J. Woo;  Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Timothy T. Coates and Peter O. Israel, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Appellants., Epstein Becker & Green, William A. Helvestine, Michael T. Horan and Elizabeth Arenson, San Francisco, for California Association of Health Plans as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.,  Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Craig J. De Recat, John F. Libby, Seth A. Gold, Jeffrey J. Maurer, Joanna S. McCallum, Terri D. Keville and Barry S. Landsberg, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Roy G. Weatherup, J. Alan Warfield, Los Angeles;  Marschak, Shulman, Hodges & Bastian, Ronald S. Hodges, Irvine, J. Ronald Ignatuk, Foothill Ranch, and Michael S. Kelly for Alfonso G. De Grezia and Malynda A. De Grezia as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.