9th Circuit Certifies 2 Questions To California High Court In Environmental Suit

Mealey's (January 17, 2017, 10:47 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 13 certified two questions to the California Supreme Court regarding whether California’s notice-prejudice rule is a fundamental public policy for the purpose of choice-of-law analysis and whether a consent provision can be interpreted as a notice provision (Pitzer College v. Indian Harbor Insurance Co., No.. 14-56017, 9th Cir.; 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 668)....