The following excerpt is from Delta Energy Projects Numbers V-A & V-B v. Sedgwick James of California, 21 F.3d 1112 (9th Cir. 1994):
The several remedies rule is intended to protect a "plaintiff [who] is aware of alternative remedies and [who] makes a conscious, rational and reasonable decision to pursue one remedy in order to eliminate the need to pursue the other." Garabedian v. Skochko, 232 Cal.App.3d 836, 844 (1991).
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