Francois v. Goel

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION - Opinion ordered published June 14, 2004 Plaintiffs, Philip Le Francois and Eric Herald sued their former employer, Duet Technologies, Inc. (Duet) 1 and three Duet officers, claiming that Duet had wrongfully withheld sales commissions and that the officers had made certain injurious misrepresentations and false promises. About a year after the litigation commenced, all defendants moved for summary judgment or in the alternative summary adjudication. The trial court denied the motion. A year after that, the individual defendants, Prabhu Goel, Anil Gupta, and Mark Goldman, filed a similar motion (the second motion) and a different trial court judge granted summary judgment as to them.