Legal Question in Personal Injury in California

Re: An Issue Brief about being awarded Non Economic Damages

I need more concise facts? Are you a lawyer, a party, a spectator, etc?

What type of trial? What are the issues? Who failed to address CCP 96? If you are a party, aren't you already represented? What type of medical bills and photos were denied?

Please e-mail, or call, my office and fill in a number of missing details, and I'll do my best to answer your inquiry.

Re: An Issue Brief about being awarded Non Economic Damages

CCP 96 requires a litigant to supply information regarding witnesses and evidence prior to trial. I assume you represented yourself and failed to reply to a CCP 96 Demand, and now you are being precluded from putting on evidence as a result.

I'm sorry for your dilemma. Unfortunately, I don't know the case law on this since cases I handle are not sufficiently small to proceed under the Rules for Economic Litigation. But, you can check the caselaw by going to a law library at a law school or at the courthouse, and looking up in West's Annotated Codes, under CCP 96. And don't forget to check the supplement for the latest cases.

Good luck.