California Court of Appeal October 30, 2000, G026580 (Vedanta Society of Southern California v. California Quartet Ltd.)

Opinion

SILLS, P. J.

I. Introduction

Tie votes mean different things in different contexts. The fictitious spelunkers in Lon Fuller’s famous law review article, finding themselves trapped in a cave and resorting to cannibalism to stay alive for the requisite amount of time until a rescue party reached them, were sentenced to death for murder when the mythical five-person Supreme Court of