The San Diego Superior Court fraud trial against JAMS Inc. and neutral Sheila Sonenshine has been adversarial, but mostly cordial. Judge John Meyer has precluded plaintiffs attorney Bryan Vess from exploring various lines of attack, but Vess has generally moved along without much fuss.

That ended Monday, after Meyer forbade Vess from inquiring into the background of Sonenshine’s business partners—and even her father—on the ground it’s too prejudicial. Meyer then allowed JAMS’s attorneys to explore at some depth that the plaintiff’s private investigator had dug into the background of Sonenshine’s husband and found him “squeaky clean.”

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