Court Opinion

ID: 9583407
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:38:16.721786+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:39:00.151465
License: Public Domain

KENNARD, J., Concurring.
I agree with the analysis and conclusions of the majority, with the following exception. The majority describes at some length the “rationale” underlying this court’s opinion in Hunter v. Up-Right, Inc. (1993) 6 Cal.4th 1174 [26 Cal.Rptr.2d 8, 864 P.2d 88]. (Maj. opn., ante, at pp. 641-642.) Hunter is now the law, but the rationale on which it is based is not well founded, as I explained in my dissenting opinion in that case. (Hunter, supra, 6 Cal.4th at pp. 1196-1198 (dis. opn. of Kennard, J.).) To the extent that the majority opinion may be read as endorsing Hunter’s reasoning, I do not join it. I agree with the majority, however, that Hunter is distinguishable from this case, and that the judgment of the Court of Appeal should be affirmed.