California Courts of Appeal,
Appellate Practice
May 9, 2017
Ruling is a change of course on mandatory relief
The most recent appellate opinion to address "mandatory relief" under CCP Section 473(b) was authored by Justice Paul Turner -- who reached the opposite conclusion in a case 17 years ago.
David J. Ozeran
UC Davis SOL King Hall; Davis CA
David is certified as an appellate specialist by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization.
To err is human; to forgive is Code of Civil Procedure Section 473(b), at least in some situations. The most recent appellate opinion to address the "mandatory" relief provision of the statute is Urban Wildlands Group v. City of Los Angeles, 2017 DJDAR 3629 (April 17, 2017), authored by Justice Paul Turner. The case is significant, because the court's holding was the opposite of that reached in an earlier opinion authored by Justice Turner in In re Marriage of Hock & ...
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