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: Legal Pad | LAThe potential chilling effects of tolling provisions at issue in Supreme Court review
By Richard Binder
The question of what constitutes a stay in court proceedings has been taken up by the California Supreme Court in the form of a March 23 ruling by Los Angeles' 2nd District Court of Appeal. That ruling, a 2-1 decision, held that any partial stay of proceedings tolls the five-year mandatory period for bringing a case to trial.
The Supreme Court granted review two weeks ago, and several prominent law firms are hoping for a reversal. Those firms include Duane Morris, Bremer Whyte Brown & O'Meara, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges and Horvitz & Levy, all of whom have joined in petitioning the court and also represent one or more defendants in the case.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on August 07, 2009 (boomark / email).
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