Mediation Confidentiality Outweighs the Needs of Other Parties, Respondent Asserts

LOS ANGELES - According to Opening Briefs filed March 17 by parties in a case concerning a mold-contaminated apartment complex, considerations of confidentiality outweigh the needs of other parties regarding whether evidence gathered for the purposes of mediation is protected by the mediation confidentiality privilege. Rojas v. Superior Court (Coffin), No. S111585 (Calif. Sup. Ct., Los Angeles).

The parties stress in their opening briefs that the intent of the Legislature in creating the pertinent Evidence Code sections was to ensure that the confidentiality of communications and materials conveyed during mediation would outweigh the need of any other party to obtain …