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 STATUTE. THE STATUTE IS THE STATUTE, SO LET'S NOT GO
2 FURTHER WITH THAT.
3 NOW, THE ANSWER IS PRELIMINARILY HE IS ENTITLED TO
4 THOSE DEPOSITIONS. HOW YOU ARRANGE IT, IT'S UP TO YOU. YOU
5 MEET AND YOU FIGURE IT OUT. AND I AM GIVING YOU A LITTLE
6 BIT OF PROMPTING, I.E., I AM FAVORABLY INCLINED TO ISSUE AN
7 ORDER TO THE EFFECT THAT THE TWO DEPOSITIONS WILL BE TAKEN.
8 OKAY?
9 MS. LUYMES: I UNDERSTAND THAT, YOUR HONOR.
10 HOWEVER, WOULD IT BE -- WE WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE
11 THE COURT WITH SOME POINTS AND AUTHORITIES ADDRESSING THIS
12 ISSUE.
13 THE COURT: I SAID "PRELIMINARILY." DID I SAY
14 "FINALLY"?
15 MS. LUYMES: NO. I HEARD YOU.
16 THE COURT: WHY DO YOU THINK I SAID
17 "PRELIMINARILY" FOR?
18 MS. LUYMES: WELL, BECAUSE YOU ALSO TALKED ABOUT
19 AN ORDER, AND I WAS CONCERNED THAT WE WOULDN'T EVEN HAVE AN
20 OPPORTUNITY TO BRIEF.
21 THE COURT: HERE'S THE THING. IF YOU CAN'T
22 AGREE -- IF YOU CAN'T AGREE -- ONE WOULD HOPE YOU WOULD --
23 I JUST GAVE YOU PREVIEW RULING, OKAY, NOT A FINAL RULING, A
24 PREVIEW RULING CALLED A PRELIMINARY RULING.
25 THE PRELIMINARY RULING IS GIVEN THE NATURE OF THE
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