Appellate Practice,
Civil Litigation,
Law Practice
Jun. 2, 2020
A little help here?
On its face, Section 166.1 is a rather peculiar statute. As you might guess, it was drafted by lawyers for their use, specially to help get interim court rulings in front of appellate courts.
Benjamin G. Shatz
Partner
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Appellate Law (Certified), Litigation
Email: bshatz@manatt.com
Benjamin is a certified specialist in appellate law who co-chairs the Appellate Practice Group at Manatt in the firm's Los Angeles office. Exceptionally Appealing appears the first Tuesday of the month.
Statutes should always have a point, but code sections numbered with a point seem especially interesting, and thereby worthy of a tale. Numbering a statute "Section 123.1" evokes the idea that the original Section 123 had such a serious omission that it needed an appendage tagged on to sort out the mess. Appellate practice -- focusing narrowly on the obscure and unusual -- seems to gravitate to such statutes, for instance our (in)famous a...
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