Tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court will file its opinion in Sass v. Cohen, which was argued on the October calendar. (Briefs here; oral argument video here.) Opinions in the remaining two undecided October cases are expected by January 4. All of the cases had a Court of Appeal justice sitting pro tem.
In a case involving the legal fallout from an unmarried couple’s falling out, the court limited the issues to these: “(1) In a complaint that seeks an accounting of specified assets, is the plaintiff required to plead a specific amount of damages to support a default judgment, or is it sufficient for purposes of Code of Civil Procedure section 580 to identify the assets that are in defendant’s possession and request half of their value? (2) Should the comparison of whether a default judgment exceeds the amount of compensatory damages demanded in the operative pleadings examine the aggregate amount of non-duplicative damages or instead proceed on a claim-by-claim or item-by-item basis?” The court granted review in May 2019. Fourth District, Division One, Justice Patricia Guerrero is the pro tem.
The opinion can be viewed tomorrow starting at 10:00 a.m.