Legal Opinion
Gonzalez v. County of Los Angeles
California Court of Appeal
Decided September 30, 2004No. B168867PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MALLANO, J.
A civil action must be brought to trial within five years after it is commenced. (Code Civ. Proc., §§ 583.310, 583.360, subd. (a).) This deadline is tolled where, as here, the action is submitted to mediation during the last six months of the five-year period. (See id., § 1775.7, subd. (b); all further statutory references are to the Code of Civil Procedure.) In this case, the mediation was not successful.
Defendants moved to dismiss the action for failure to comply with the five-year statute. Plaintiff opposed the motion, arguing that the deadline had been tolled by the…
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