Supreme Court of California

In a dependency action wherein a nonprofit law office that represents parties in the Los Angeles County Juvenile Dependency Court was disqualified for a conflict of interest, a court of appeals' judgment reversing the disqualification order is reversed and remanded for reconsideration where the trial court applied the wrong legal standard in ordering the office's disqualification and thus abused its discretion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/30/2008
• Published 10/30/2008

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Rex S. Heinke and Seth M.M. Stodder, Los Angeles, for Objector and Appellant., John Cahill, Burbank, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Minor., William Wesley Patton, Costa Mesa, as amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Raymond G. Fortner, Jr., County Counsel, and Peter Ferrera, Assistant County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent., John L. Dodd, Tustin, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Respondent.