Pacific Corporate Group Holdings, LLC v. Keck

In Pacific Corporate Group Holdings, LLC v. Keck (2014) 232 Cal.App.4th 294, the Court held it lacked jurisdiction to hear a former employer's appeal of a judgment in favor of a former employee after the trial court granted the former employee's motion for additur or, in the alternative, for a new trial on damages. In reaching our decision, we rejected the contention of the former employer that it would be "anomalous" to consider, and possibly affirm, a "new trial on damages and to consider claims that go to liability in a subsequent appeal." (Keck, supra, 232 Cal.App.4th at p. 303.) The Court noted, however, that is "precisely the outcome that case law contemplates." (Ibid.)