Supreme Court of California

In a contract dispute concerning the enforceability of an arbitration clause, the trial court erred when it concluded that there was an ambiguity in the contract that had to be resolved in favor of plaintiff by refusing to compel arbitration.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/18/2005
• Published 07/18/2005

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, Dean Hansell, Sharon C. Corda and Jared M. Katz, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Appellants., Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft, Paul J. Killion and Leslie Kurshan, San Francisco, for Unionamerica Insurance Company as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Fred J. Hiestand for The Civil Justice Association of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Bohn & Bohn, Robert H. Bohn;  Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Michael J. Quirk, Walnut Creek, F. Paul Bland, Jr., and Kate Gordon for Plaintiff and Respondent., Robinson, Calcagnie & Robinson and Sharon J. Arkin, Newport Beach, for Consumer Attorneys of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., Public Citizen Litigation Group, Scott L. Nelson, Brian Wolfman;  Kasdan, Simonds, Riley & Vaughan and Vance C. Simonds, Irvine, for Public Citizen, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., Deborah Zuckerman, Michael Schuster;  Kemnitzer, Anderson, Barron & Ogilvie and Nancy Barron, San Francisco, for AARP and The National Association of Consumer Advocates as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.