Compulsory Cross-Complaints
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Maldonado v. Harris (2004)
Most recently applied in Porter v. Remmich (August 2024)
Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 244.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
As used in this article:
(a) “Complaint” means a complaint or cross-complaint.
(b) “Plaintiff” means a person who files a complaint or cross-complaint.
(c) “Related cause of action” means a cause of action which arises out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences as the cause of action which the plaintiff alleges in his complaint.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.