Legal Opinion
Fasuyi v. Permatex, Inc.
California Court of Appeal
Decided October 15, 2008No. A117760PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
RICHMAN, J.
The law favors resolution of cases on their merits, and because it does, any doubts about whether Code of Civil Procedure section 473 1 relief should be granted “ ‘must be resolved in favor of the party seeking relief from default [citations]. Therefore, a trial court order denying relief is scrutinized more carefully than an order permitting trial on the merits.’ [Citations.]” (Rappleyea v. Campbell (1994) 8 Cal.4th 975, 980 [35 Cal.Rptr.2d 669, 884 P.2d 126] (Rappleyea).) Justice Mosk began Rappleyea with a succinct statement of the question before the Supreme Court and…
2Cases cited33 opinions
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- MacLeod v. Tribune Publishing Co.California Supreme Court · 1959
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- Elston v. City of TurlockCalifornia Supreme Court · 1985
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