Legal Opinion
Lasalle v. Vogel
California Court of Appeal, 5th District
Decided June 11, 2019No. G055381PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEDSWORTH, ACTING P. J.
*130Here is what Code of Civil Procedure1 section 583.130 says: "It is the policy of the state that a plaintiff shall proceed with reasonable diligence in the prosecution of an action but that all parties shall cooperate in bringing the action to trial or other *265disposition." That is not complicated language. No jury instruction defining any of its terms would be necessary if we were submitting it to a panel of non-lawyers. The policy of the state is that the parties to a lawsuit "shall cooperate." Period. Full stop.
Yet the principle the section dictates has somehow become…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Denham v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1970
- Rappleyea v. CampbellCalifornia Supreme Court · 1994
- MacLeod v. Tribune Publishing Co.California Supreme Court · 1959
- Viner v. SweetCalifornia Supreme Court · 2003
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