California Court of Appeal

In an action for damages for harm caused in juvenile hall, grant of defendant's motion to quash plaintiff's Doe amendments on grounds that plaintiff unreasonably delayed in filing and serving the amendments is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff provided no reasonable explanation for the roughly two-year delay in filing and serving the Doe amendments; and 2) plaintiff did not show that he was prejudiced by the trial court's decision not to allow the Doe amendments.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/05/2009
• Published 03/05/2009

Judges

• BIGELOW, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• McNicholas & McNicholas, Matthew S. McNicholas, Christina J. Smith, Los Angeles, Robert P. Wargo;  Esner, Chang & Ellis, Andrew N. Chang, Oakland, and Stuart B. Esner, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Collins, Collins, Muir & Stewart, Tomas A. Guterres, Douglas Fee, Eric C. Brown and Christian E. Foy Nagy for Defendants and Respondents.