Hurtado v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that Mexico has no interest in applying its statutory limitation on damages when defendants in a tort action were not Mexican residents
• holding that Mexico has no interest in applying its statutory limitation on damages when defendants in a tort action were not Mexican residents
• holding that Mexico has no interest in applying its statutory limitation on damages when defendants in a tort action were not Mexican residents
• holding that, where plaintiffs’ resident state imposes greater limitations on damages than defendants’ state, the plaintiffs’ state has no interest in applying its law
• noting that generally a California court will apply California law unless a party invokes the law of a foreign jurisdiction
• noting that there is no choice of law problem where two states' laws do not conflict

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).