Today at 10:00 a.m., the Supreme Court will hand down its opinion in Hernandez v. Restoration Hardware, Inc., No. S233983. This opinion will address whether an unnamed class member must "intervene in the litigation in order to have standing to appeal" any portion of a class action judgment (in a non-settlement context). See this blog post for more on the case.
When the opinion is posted, it should be available at this link:
- Hernandez v. Restoration Hardware, Inc., ___ Cal.5th ___ (Jan. 29, 2018). UPDATE: It turns out that the opinion did address the settlement context. The Court held that in order to have standing to appeal any kind of judgment, even one entered following a settlement, the unnamed class member must have intervened below; merely filing an objection to the settlement is not sufficient.
By the way, within the past couple of months, something changed in the permalinks to the Court's online dockets at appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov. I first noticed it when some of my bookmarks on my web browser were broken. This means that many of the docket links in my past blog posts are now broken as well. Those older links will take you to the Court's main docket search page, and you'll have to re-enter the case number or party name to find the docket.
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