Lorillard
Fibreboard Corporation Plaintiffs, V. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Defendants. (Proposed) Order Sustaining Defendants' Demurrers to Plaintiffs' Amended Complaint. No. 791919-8
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- Author
- Kawaichi, K.M.
- Area
- LEGAL DEPT. FILE/BASEMENT GMP
- Type
- PLEA, PLEADING
- Site
- G29
- Request
- R1-080
- Named Organization
- Bat, British American Tobacco
- Bw, Brown & Williamson
- Ca
- Fibreboard
- Lig, Liggett
- Owens Corning
- PM, Philip Morris
- RJR, R.J.Reynolds
- Alameda County
- Date Loaded
- 06 Dec 2001
- Document File
- 96773799/96773880/Litigation Sara Guzman V. Philip Morris Court Papers - Volume II
- Master ID
- 96773800/3879
- 96773800-3879 Index of Pleadings Case Name: Sara Guzman V. Philip Morris Court: Superior Court State of California, San Francisco Case Number: 300200
- 96773802-3803 Sara Guzman, Plaintiffs, V. Phillip Morris Tobacco Company, Defendants. Joint Stipulation to Dismiss Lorillard Tobacco Company, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Liggett Group, Inc., Without Prejudice. Case No. 300200
- 96773804-3805 Sara Guzman, Plaintiffs, V. Phillip Morris Tobacco Company, Defendants. Proof of Service. Case No. C-99-01797 Mmc
- 96773807-3811 Sara Guzman, Plaintiffs, V. Phillip Morris Tobacco Company, Defendants. Order Denying in Part and Granting in Part Defendants' Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings. No. C-99-071797 Mmc
- 96773812 Erler V. Philip Morris, Et Al.
- 96773813-3827 Nan Erler, Plaintiff, Vs. Phillip Morris Incorporated, Defendant. Order Denying Defendant's Renewed Motion to Dismiss and Granting Defendant's Request for Judicial Notice. Case No. 98cv138
- 96773828-3837 Sara Guzman, Plaintiffs, V. Phillip Morris Tobacco Company, Defendants. Reply Memorandum in Support of Certain Defendants' Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings (Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(C)). Case No. C-99-01797 Mmc
- 96773838-3839 Sara Guzman, Plaintiffs, V. Phillip Morris Tobacco Company, Defendants. Supplemental Request for Judicial Notice in Support of Certain Defendants' Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings (Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(C)). Case No. C-99-01797 Mmc
- 96773841-3854 Betty Jean Myers, Plaintiff, V. Phillip Morris, Inc., Defendants. Order Granting Defendants' Motion to Dismiss. No. Civ-F-99-5449-Rec-Ljo
- 96773855-3857 Sarah M. Persley, Plaintiff, V. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., Defendant. Order Re: Duplicative Filings. Cv 97-2696 Jmi (Rck)
- 96773860-3862 Sara Guzman, Plaintiffs, V. Phillip Morris Tobacco Company, Defendants. Federal Certificate of Service by Hand-Delivery and U.S. Mail. Case No. C-99-01797 Mmc
- 96773863-3864 San Francisco Summer Program
- 96773865-3875 Sara Guzman, Plaintiffs, Vs. Phillip Morris Tobacco Company, Defendants. Plaintiffs' Opposition to Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings. No. 99 1797 Mmc
- 96773876-3877 Sara Guzman, Plaintiffs, Vs. Phillip Morris Tobacco Company, Defendants. Order Denying Certain Defendants Motion for Judgement on the Pleadings. No. 99 1797 Mmc
- 96773878-3879 Sara Guzman, Plaintiffs, Vs. Phillip Morris Tobacco Company, Defendants. Federal Certificate of Service by U.S. Mail. No. 99 1797 Mmc
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Defendants' demurrers to the equitable indemnification, spoliation and declaratory relief
(third, fourth and fifth) causes of action of Plaintiffs' Amended Complaint came on for hearing on
December 11, 1998. After considering the papers filed by the parties and the argument of counsel for
Plaintiffs and Defendants at the hearing, and
GOOD CAUSE APPEARING THEREFOR, Defendants' demurrers to the third, fourth
and fifth causes of action are sustained without leave to amend for the following reasons:
1. The Court sustains the demurrer to Plaintiffs' third cause of action because the
original version of Civil Code Section 1714.45 bars Plaintiffs' claim for equitable indemnity from
Defendants, and the September 1997 amendment to Section 1714.45 cannot be retroactively applied.
The Court does not rule that the amended version of Civil Code Section 1714.45 bars equitable
indemnification claims with respect to asbestos=related personal injury actions against Plaintiffs
that
accrued after January 1, 1998. The Court does not sustain the demurrer to the third cause of action
or
the additional ground set forth in Defendants' papers that Plaintiffs cannot state a claim for
equitable
indemnification unless they set forth each of the underlying claims with specificity on a case by
case
basis.
2. The Court sustains the demurrer to Plaintiffs' fourth cause of action because
Plaintiffs have failed to allege an actionable claim for spoliation of evidence under California
law.
3. The Court sustains the demurrer to Plaintiffs' fi8h cause of action because
Plaintiffs have failed to allege an actual controversy relating to the legal rights and duties of
the
respective parties that presents justiciable questions or that is amenable to a precise decree of
conclusive character. Ss& Code of Civ. Proc. §§1060 and 1061.
The Defendants shall have twenty (20) days from the date of this Order to file and serve
answers to the Amended Complaint. ~
IT IS SO ORDERED. ~
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Hono e Ken M. Kawaichi
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