California Court of Appeal

In proceedings seeking a petition for writ of mandate to compel a nonprofit religious corporation and its officers to permit five of its members to inspect the corporation's membership list, books, and records, based on the claim that they were members of the corporation, grant of the writ with conditions is reversed and remanded where defendant's notice of appeal was filed timely on July 17, 2008 as the plaintiffs did not serve any document on the defendants that commenced the running of the 60-day period under rule 8.104(a)(2), and because neither the court clerk nor a party served a document that complied with rule 8.104(a)(1) or (2), defendants were required to file their notice of appeal within 180 days after entry of judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/22/2010
• Published 02/22/2010

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Curtis & Arata, Arata, Swingle, Sodhi & Van Egmond, Jakrun S. Sodhi and Jineen T. Espinosa for Defendants and Appellants., Cooper, White & Cooper, Stephen D. Kaus and Mark P. Cohen for Plaintiffs and Respondents.