• Judgment,  Waiver of Issues

    The Judgment, the Whole Judgment, and Nothing But the Judgment

    Sometimes, a judgment is a mixed bag. That’s how all the parties must have viewed the judgment in Satchmed Plaza Owners Assn. v. UWMC Hospital Corp., case no. G038119 (4th Dist. Oct. 23, 2008). The judgment enforced Satchmed’s right of first refusal with respect to 22 owned medical office units by requiring UWMC to offer them to Satchmed at a certain price. But the judgment did not require such an offer on 12 other units, which were leased. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the judgment stated that there was no prevailing party. Mixed bags create competing incentives. Here, one incentive got the best of Satchmed. UWMC complied with the judgment by offering the…