Mandatory Time for Bringing Action to Trial or New Trial
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Allyn v. McDonald (2001)
Most recently applied in The Power Co. v. Henry (March 2014)
Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1705, Sec. 5.
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.
In computing the time within which an action must be brought to trial pursuant to this article, there shall be excluded the time during which any of the following conditions existed:
(a) The jurisdiction of the court to try the action was suspended.
(b) Prosecution or trial of the action was stayed or enjoined.
(c) Bringing the action to trial, for any other reason, was impossible, impracticable, or futile.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.