Civil Litigation
Dec. 1, 2020
Riverside civil trial starts after Cal State loses COVID-spreader argument
The university objected to a decision by San Bernardino County Judge Lynn M. Poncin to allow a jury trial to proceed, citing the spike in COVID-19 infections throughout California. The university took a writ petition to the 4th District on Nov. 2, arguing the state saw record infection rates for several days.
Jury selection got underway in Riverside on Monday following two unsuccessful bids by California State University defendants to halt a personal injury trial which they claimed would be a COVID-19 superspreader event.
The California Supreme Court declined to review a 4th District Court of Appeal decision that the trial should go forward as planned. A 22-year-old student sued the university after saying she suffered heat stroke and su...
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