Supreme Court of California

Court of Appeals judgment is affirmed where a corporation is entitled to immunity under the Unclaimed Property Law only if it complies with the Law, and thus does not immunize corporations like defendant who allegedly transfer nonescheated shares to the state without giving the required notice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/16/2009
• Published 07/16/2009

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Shapiro, Rodarte & Forman, Carl W. Shapiro, Teresa Z. Youhanaie, Leora D. Freedman and Thomas W. Foote, Santa Monica, for Plaintiff and Appellant., Law Office of William W. Palmer and William W. Palmer for Bank of Stockton, Sacramento, Alexander Vondjidis, Agnes W. Suever, Madonna Suever, Steve Tucker, Richard W. Seitzinger, Jo-Ann S. Seitzinger, Seitzinger Family Trust, Johnstone Whitley, Lynn Keith, Richard Valdez, San Diego, Tony Lee, Chris Lusby Taylor, Nancy A. Pepple-Gonsalves, Gary Kesselman, Susan Swinton, Dawn E. Struck, William J. Palmer, Leslie Saul-Gershenz, Carla Ruff and Emilio G. Milian, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, Robin B. Johansen, San Leandro, James C. Harrison and Margaret R. Prinzing, for California State Controller John Chiang as Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Jeffrey H. Reeves, J. Scot Kennedy, John N. Carter and Julian W. Poon, Irvine, for Defendant and Respondent.