KLEIN v.
STATES OF AMERICA
Filed 7/26/10
IN THE SUPREME
COURT OF CALIFORNIA
ALAN RICHARD KLEIN et al., )
)
Plaintiffs
and Appellants, )
)
v. )
S165549
)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA et al., ) 9th
Cir. No. 06-55510
) C.D. Cal. No.
Defendants
and Respondents. ) CV-05-05526-PA
__________________________________ )
STORY CONTINUE
FROM PART I….
The third reason relies on another statutory
construction principle, that courts must strive to give meaning to every word
in a statute and to avoid constructions that render words, phrases, or clauses
superfluous. (People v. Trevino (2001) 26 Cal.4th 237, 245-246;
v. Woodhead (1987) 43 Cal.3d 1002, 1010.)
The broad construction of the safe-premises immunity provision that the United States urges us to adopt would violate this
rule. The duty to â€
| Description | Plaintiff Alan Richard Klein was riding a bicycle for recreation on a two-lane paved road in Angeles National Forest in Southern California when he was struck head-on by an automobile driven by a part-time volunteer working for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Having been seriously injured in the collision, plaintiff sued the United States government (the owner of the national forest land) and its volunteer worker. At issue here is the scope and applicability of California's Civil Code section 846, which provides, as relevant here, that a landowner †|
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