Lamden v. La Jolla Shores Clubdominium Homeowners Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• holding “courts should defer to the board’s authority and presumed expertise” when it discharges its duty to repair a common area after a “reasonable investigation, in good faith and with regard for the best interests of the community association and its members”
• rejecting claim that \a rule of judicial deference will insulate community association boards' decisions from judicial review\ and stating that the \judicial oversight\ provided under deferential standard \affords significant protection against overreaching by such boards\
• “[N]either the California statute nor the common law business judgment rule, strictly speaking, protects noncorporate entities . . . .”
• “A director shall perform the duties of a director ... with such care, including reasonable inquiry, as an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would use under similar circumstances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).