(DOWNLOAD) "Weaver V. Pasadena Tournament Of Roses Association" by Supreme Court Of California * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Weaver V. Pasadena Tournament Of Roses Association
- Author : Supreme Court Of California
- Release Date : January 28, 1948
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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Four plaintiffs -- "on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated" -- brought this action in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, each seeking to recover the $100 statutory penalty imposed for the wrongful refusal of admission to the Rose Bowl Game at Pasadena on January 1, 1947 -- a "place of public amusement or entertainment." (Civ. Code, §§ 53, 54; Greenberg v. Western Turf Association, 140 Cal. 357, 364 [73 P. 1050].) By demurrer and motion to strike, defendants Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, Associated Students University of California at Los Angeles, and William C. Ackerman, the "Graduate Manager of Athletics" at the university, appeared in challenge of the propriety of plaintiffs' maintenance of this action as a representative suit and the jurisdiction of the superior court to proceed upon that basis. At the hearing on this issue as to the appropriate trial forum for the litigation of plaintiffs' action, defendants prevailed and the court made the following order: "It appearing upon argument of demurrer that this is not and cannot be a representative action, that it involves a money demand for less then $1,000.00, to-wit, statutory penalties in the aggregate amount of $400.00, and that this court is without jurisdiction, this cause is transferred to the Justice's Court for Pasadena Township, and demurrers and motions are placed off calendar." From such order, plaintiffs have appealed.