Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Gonzalez

Opinion

GILBERT, J.

An attorney wishes to file a complaint in the Ventura Municipal Court. The clerk will not accept the complaint for filing unless the attorney first submits a completed “case information sheet” required by a local court rule.

We are called upon to answer a question, universal to the legal profession, “Can they do that?”

Here we offer our answer to this weighty inquiry — “Sure.”

The Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company (Hartford) appeals from the order denying its petition for writ of mandate to compel respondent, Sheila Gonzalez, as Clerk of the Ventura Municipal Court…