Allan Favish is a Los Angeles-based attorney whose focus is on General Insurance Defense and Litigation Insurance Coverage/Reinsurance & Bad Faith Litigation. A UCLA graduate, he received his J.D. at Hastings College of Law in 1981.
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1 THE COURT: WERE YOU PREVIOUSLY? WERE YOU THERE
2 WHEN YOU FILED YOUR MOTION?
3 MR. FAVISH: I WAS IN PASADENA.
4 THE COURT: WHEN YOU FILED THE LAWSUIT?
5 MR. FAVISH: YES.
6 THE COURT: I AM GOING TO SAY THAT I CAN'T
7 REMEMBER SOME LAW, BUT I CAN REMEMBER, BELIEVE IT OR NOT --
8 AND I HAVE NOT LOOKED IT UP HERE -- ALL I HAVE IS THE
9 OPINION THAT YOU WERE FROM PASADENA, AND THAT WAS MY
10 RECOLLECTION. WHEN DID YOU FILE THIS LAWSUIT -- '98? IT
11 WASN'T THAT LONG AGO.
12 MS. LUYMES: YOUR HONOR --
13 THE COURT: AT ANY RATE, SO HERE WE ARE THEN.
14 I'LL LOOK AT THEM. AND IF I NEED FURTHER HEARING IN VIEW
15 OF THE IN-CAMERA REVIEW, I'LL TELL YOU. IF I DON'T, I'LL
16 RULE. AND ASSOCIATEDLY, IF YOU WANT TO PURSUE SOME TYPE OF
17 DISCOVERY, DISCOVERY TO THE EFFECT OF, "WELL, WHAT YOU'RE
18 LOOKING AT, JUDGE, ISN'T REALLY WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY
19 PHOTOGRAPHED, I.E., IT'S BEEN DOCTORED OR ALTERED," YOU CAN
20 TAKE THE -- YOU CAN TAKE THE DISCOVERY.
21 AS I TALK IT OUT, I THINK THE BETTER WAY TO DO
22 THIS IS THAT YOU PROCEED WITH MY MAKING A RULING ON THE
23 PHOTOGRAPHS.
24 WAIT A SECOND, MR. FAVISH.
25 FOR THE RECORD FAVISH IS GOING TOWARD THAT
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