California Court of Appeal

In a case concerns whether the one-judge-court deadline under Code of Civil Procedure section 170.6, which delineates the process by which a litigant may exercise a peremptory challenge against a superior court judge, has become irrelevant because there are no longer any counties with only one superior court judge, or whether the one-judge-court deadline should be adapted to apply to branches of superior courts for which there is only one assigned judge, the trial court's order denying the challenges to disqualify a judge is reversed where a branch of the superior court with only one assigned judge is not a court for which a single judge is authorized for purposes of the one-judge court deadline under section 170.6.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/04/08

Judges

• HOCH

Court

• California Court of Appeal

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