10 Cited authorities

  1. Mesler v. Bragg Management Co.

    39 Cal.3d 290 (Cal. 1985)   Cited 466 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the trial court should have allowed plaintiff to amend the complaint to add an alter ego theory
  2. Berman v. Bromberg

    56 Cal.App.4th 936 (Cal. Ct. App. 1997)   Cited 112 times
    Recognizing the policy of "great liberality" which applies to allowing amendments to pleadings
  3. Higgins v. Del Faro

    123 Cal.App.3d 558 (Cal. Ct. App. 1981)   Cited 40 times
    In Higgins, the defendant filed a demurrer to the complaint on the ground that the escrow agreement, which had been attached as an exhibit to the complaint, was not the agreement between the parties and thus the plaintiff had failed to state a cause of action.
  4. Rule 5 - Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 5   Cited 22,753 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Allowing service by filing papers with the court's electronic-filing system
  5. Section 473 - Mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect

    Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 473   Cited 5,940 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Allowing up to six months to challenge a judgment entered through the moving party's mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect
  6. Section 1

    Cal. Const. art. I § 1   Cited 1,075 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Providing "[a]ll people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights," including the right of "privacy"
  7. Section 3289 - Legal rate of interest for breach of contract

    Cal. Civ. Code § 3289   Cited 414 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Providing for a 10 percent annual interest rate for breach of contract claims when the contract itself does not stipulate a rate of interest
  8. Section 576 - Amendment of pleading or pretrial conference order

    Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 576   Cited 124 times

    Any judge, at any time before or after commencement of trial, in the furtherance of justice, and upon such terms as may be proper, may allow the amendment of any pleading or pretrial conference order. Ca. Civ. Proc. Code § 576 Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 882.

  9. Section 1013 - Requirements for service by mail

    Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1013   Cited 74 times

    (a) In case of service by mail, the notice or other paper shall be deposited in a post office, mailbox, subpost office, substation, or mail chute, or other like facility regularly maintained by the United States Postal Service, in a sealed envelope, with postage paid, addressed to the person on whom it is to be served, at the office address as last given by that person on any document filed in the cause and served on the party making service by mail; otherwise at that party's place of residence.

  10. Section 1371 - Reimbursement of claims within 30 or 45 working days

    Cal. Health & Saf. Code § 1371   Cited 28 times

    (a) (1) A health care service plan, including a specialized health care service plan, shall reimburse claims or a portion of a claim, whether in state or out of state, as soon as practicable, but no later than 30 working days after receipt of the claim by the health care service plan, or if the health care service plan is a health maintenance organization, 45 working days after receipt of the claim by the health care service plan, unless the claim or portion thereof is contested by the plan, in which