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- Title: Evangelatos V. Superior Court Of Los Angeles County
- Author : Supreme Court Of California
- Release Date : January 21, 1988
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 119 KB
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In June 1986, the voters of California approved an initiative measure, the Fair Responsibility Act of 1986 (Civ. Code, §§ 1431 to 1431.5) -- popularly known as, and hereafter referred to, as Proposition 51 -- which modified the traditional, common law "joint and several liability" doctrine, limiting an individual tortfeasor's liability for noneconomic damages to a proportion of such damages equal to the tortfeasor's own percentage of fault.*fn1 Just a few weeks after the election, the underlying