Supreme Court of California

Corporations Code section 13406(b) does not occupy the entire field of law governing the corporate practice of law by nonprofit corporations. Reversal of a trial court's grant of judgment on the pleadings for defendant-nonprofit on plaintiff's causes of action for money had and received and breach of fiduciary duty is reversed in an action brought against defendant regarding its recovery of attorney's fees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/09/2006
• Published 03/09/2006

Judges

• GEORGE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Law Offices of Andrew M. Zacks, Law Offices of Paul F. Utrecht, Zacks Utrecht & Leadbetter, Andrew M. Sacks, Paul F. Utrecht and James B. Kraus, San Francisco, for Plaintiff and Appellant., Marie M. Moffat, Lawrence C. Yee, Karen Segar Salty, San Francisco, and Rachel S. Grunberg, for the State Bar of California as Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Chapman, Popik & White, Susan M. Popik, Kyle D. Kickhaefer, Benjamin J. Riley, San Francisco;  Tenderloin Housing Clinic and Stephen L. Collier, San Francisco, for Defendant and Respondent., Heller Ehrman, Steven V. Bromse, Warrington S. Parker III, Ethan C. Glass, San Francisco;  The Impact Fund, Brad Seligman, Berkeley, and Sarah Varela, for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of San Diego and Imperial Counties, The Impact Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, Disability Rights Advocates, the Environmental Defense Center, the Utility Reform Network, Equal Rights Advocates, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Charles D. Weisselberg, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., Western Center on Law and Poverty, Richard A. Rothschild, Los Angeles;  Latham & Watkins, Amos E. Hartson, Kathryn M. Davis, Beth A. Collins, Keith Wesley, Los Angeles;  Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland and Robin Meadow, Los Angeles, for the Los Angles County Bar Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., Carroll, Burdick & McDonough and Don Willenburg, San Francisco, for Eviction Defense Collaborative, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., Anthony T. Caso, for Pacific Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., Legal Services of Northern California, Gary F. Smith, Sacramento;  Western Center on Law and Poverty, Richard A. Rothschild, Los Angeles;  and Julia R. Wilson, for Legal Aid Association of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.