Court Opinion

ID: 9463705
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:13:47.131943+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:14.580590
License: Public Domain

DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
I concur because I believe that, when the California Legislature adopted California Commercial Code § 2201, it was providing a special statutory method of alleviating at least to some extent, the hardship that can be caused by the Statute of Frauds in cases to which § 2201 applies. Therefore, the decisions of the Supreme Court of California and the California Courts of Appeal which have established judicial rules mitigating the hardships caused by the Statute of Frauds should not be applied in a case in which § 2201 applies. I know of no reason why the California Legislature cannot provide a substitute for the judicially created mitigating rules, and think that that is what the California Legislature has done. I think that this is the essence of what Judge Renfrew was holding when he concluded that the California courts would probably apply the decision of the Arizona court in the Tiffany case, which deals with the comparable Arizona statute.