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Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP
Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, No. H048651 · judgment May 26, 2021
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Was Petitioner denied due process by the summary denial of Petitioner’s application for leave to file appeal where the application had been previously approved by the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court, and Appellees had not objected to the filing of the appeal, and the court altered the docket to falsify the filing date of the second vexatious litigant order to the date of summary denial?
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Whether the California Superior Court should be “the court where the litigation is proposed to be filed” in Code of Civil Procedure Section 391.7(a) such that once filed with approval of the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court, the California Court of Appeal did not have jurisdiction to require a second vexatious litigant application to file the appeal?
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Whether Petitioner was denied due process, when the State Court of Appeal concealed the Notice of Appeal transmitted from the trial court and refused to docket the appeal for 111 days when the Notice of Appeal was properly filed with the trial court with preapproval of the Presiding Judge?
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Does due process require change of place of appeal when the State’s Court of Appeal and its
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Linda Shao
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Proceedings
- Apr 18 2022Rehearing DENIED. The Chief Justice took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
- Mar 29 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/14/2022.
- Mar 18 2022Petition for Rehearing filed.
- Feb 22 2022Petition DENIED.
- Feb 02 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/18/2022.
- Dec 14 2021Request for recusal received from petitioner.
- Nov 23 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 13, 2022)