Sections
17 entriesSection 588Defines issues on the pleadings as arising when one party maintains a fact or conclusion of law and the other party disputes…Section 589Defines an issue of law as arising from a demurrer to a complaint, cross-complaint, answer, or part of one of those pleadings,…Section 590Defines when an issue of fact arises: when an answer controverts a material allegation in the complaint, and when the answer raises…Section 591Requires an issue of law to be tried by the court unless the parties consent to a reference. Failure by a person…Section 592Requires issues of fact in specified property, contract, and injury actions to be tried by jury unless jury trial is waived or…Section 594Allows a superior-court party to proceed to trial or hearing without the adverse party unless the court directs otherwise for good cause,…Section 594aAllows the court on its own motion to postpone a trial when, at the scheduled trial time, it is engaged in another…Section 595Requires postponement of trials, hearings, and specified proceedings when a party, attorney of record, or principal witness is a California legislator during…Section 595.1Defines proceeding in a court, for the referenced rule, to include discovery proceedings, pretrial conferences, depositions, interrogatories, and any other proceeding arising…Section 595.2Requires a court, in all cases, to postpone a trial or the hearing of any motion or demurrer when all attorneys of…Section 595.3Requires postponement of a trial involving title to mining claims or trespass damage to mining claims when the court is satisfied that…Section 595.4Limits a motion to postpone trial because evidence is absent to an affidavit showing the expected evidence is material and due diligence…Section 596Requires a party who obtains a trial postponement, if the adverse party demands it, to consent to immediate deposition testimony from any…Section 597Allows the court to try threshold defenses, including limitations, prior judgment, another action pending, or another nonmerits bar, before other issues. A…Section 597.5Requires a statute-of-limitations defense to be tried separately and before other issues in specified professional-negligence, lack-of-consent, or practice-error actions against listed health…Section 598Allows the court to try one issue before another when witness convenience, justice, economy, or efficiency would be promoted, on a party’s…Section 599Extends unexpired deadlines as of March 19, 2020 for discovery, expert exchanges, mandatory settlement conferences, and summary-judgment motions by the same length…