Mar. 15, 2013
Choice of law under the governmental interest approach
Simply filing a case in California does not automatically mean the applicable legal authority is California.
Brian S. Kabateck
Founding and Managing Partner, Kabateck LLP
Consumer rights
633 W. Fifth Street Suite 3200
Los Angeles , CA 90071
Phone: 213-217-5000
Email: bsk@kbklawyers.com
Brian represents plaintiffs in personal injury, mass torts litigation, class actions, insurance bad faith, insurance litigation and commercial contingency litigation. He is a former president of Consumer Attorneys of California.
Douglas A. Rochen
Partner, ACTS LAW, LLP
Personal injury
16001 Ventura Blvd, Suite #200
Encino , CA 91436
Fax: (310) 407-7888
Email: drochen@actslaw.com
California Western School of Law
Douglas leads the firm's catastrophic injury practice group, which includes the areas of trucking accidents, wrongful death, product liability, sexual abuse, traumatic brain injury, paralysis, catastrophic orthopedic loss, amputation, mass tort disaster, sensory loss, civil rights, premises liability, and pharmaceutical litigation.
Simply filing a case in California does not automatically mean the applicable legal authority is California. Even if personal jurisdiction is attainable and venue is deemed proper, certain challenges may still arise when the parties to a lawsuit hail from different sovereign states, and/or the accident occurred out-of-state. When the court is faced with these circumstances, an often challenging analysis must be performed to determine what law applies. In making this determination, the Ca...
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