Litigation
Jul. 4, 2001
'Cottle' Lives!
The right to a jury is a valued right -- but at the same time, considerations of judicial resources, of the parties' expense and time, of overburdened courts and scarce jury pools compel that trial courts utilize every reasonable approach to mange the cases before them and to effectively utilize the scarce resources available.
In the June 13 edition of Verdicts & Settlement, Greg Coolidge, in an article titled "Tilting at Windmills," writes about the court's decision in Cottle v. Superior Court, 3 Cal.4th 1367 (1992). He states that Cottle is aberrant and that the court declared the case to be no ...
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