Affordable Appeals

"Trial court discretion is not unlimited"
Braude v. Automobile Club,
178 Cal.App.3d 994, 1014 (1986)

"Judges, including appellate judges, are required to follow the law"
California Casualty v. Appellate Department,
46 Cal.App.4th 1145, 1147 (1996)

"Uncontradicted testimony must be accepted as true"
Hayward v. Rogers, 62 Cal. 348, 372 (1882)

"Disposition of cases on the merits
is preferred to dismissal for procedural defects."
Waite v. Southern Pacific Co.,
192 Cal. 467, 470 (1923)

"The courts exist for litigants. Litigants do not exist for the courts."
Neary v. Regents of the University of California,
3 Cal.4th 273, 280 (1992)

Affordable Appeals