Litigation
Dec. 27, 2011
The five-year mandatory dismissal statute may be back in vogue
With lengthy trial delays on the horizon, the mandatory dismissal statute may be making a comeback. By Robert Wright of Horvitz & Levy LLP
Many California litigators have never confronted the state statute requiring the dismissal of all civil cases that have not gone to trial within five years. The era of lengthy trial delays that once made the statute a common feature of practice are largely forgotten. But with devastating cuts in the judicial branch's budget, lengthy trial delays may be returning, and with them, we may see the mandatory dismissal statute applied with increasin...
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