Monday, November 11, 2019

Jury Trial Waiver Kills Contractual Forum Selection

Handoush v. Lease Finance Group, LLC, No. A150863 (D1d3 Oct. 31, 2019)

The right to civil jury trial in California is kind of a big deal. In this case, the Court of Appeal holds that California courts won’t enforce a venue selection provision in a contract that also contains a jury trial waiver that the selected venue would uphold. 

Read about it in full in the piece I wrote for Kirkland with my partner David Klein.

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