Ranchito Ownership Co. v. Superior Court

Opinion

FILES, J. *

This mandate proceeding is brought to review an order of the superior court denying a motion to quash a second notice of lis pen-dens which was filed after another judge had quashed an earlier notice of lis pendens recorded by the same party in the same case. We conclude that (1) It was improper to file a second notice of lis pendens without the consent of the court and (2) assuming that a court has jurisdiction to modify or revoke its order expunging a notice of lis pendens, the showing made in the respondent court in this case does not justify any modification of the…