California Court of Appeal

In a class action brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, trial court judgment is reversed where the trial court abused its discretion in dismissing plaintiff's action for failure to bring the action to trial within the five-year period, as a partial stay of an action constitutes a stay of the prosecution of the action and thus certain periods of time should have been excluded from the five-year period such that plaintiff's action should not have been dismissed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/23/2009
• Published 03/23/2009

Judges

• MOSK, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Law Offices of Kevin M. Tripi, Kevin M. Tripi for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Horvitz & Levy, Bradley S. Pauley, Robert H. Wright, Encino;  Bremer Whyte Brown & O'Meara, Nicole Whyte and Stephanie N. Rachel, Newport Beach, for Defendant and Respondent E-Commerce Exchange, Inc., Duane Morris, Max H. Stern, W. Andrew Miller, Jessica E. La Londe, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents CSB Partnership;  Chris & Tad Enterprises;  CSB & Ellison, LLC;  CSB & Hinckley, LLC;  CSB & Humbach, LLC;  CSB & McCray, LLC;  and CSB & Perez, LLC., Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, Jon Steiger, G. Lisa Wick, Los Angeles, Andrea L. Manka for Defendant and Respondent Flagstar Bank., Casello & Lincoln, James H. Casello for Defendants and Respondents Clayton Shurley dba Clayton Shurley's Texas BBQ;  Clayton Shurley's Texas BBQ, Inc.;   Clayton Shurley's Real BBQ, Inc.;  Elliot McCrosky dba California Homefinders and E & N Financial;  Daniel Quon;  Daniel E. Quon, O.D., Inc.;   and Fax.com, Inc.