After litigating a case for over five years, the Attorneys at Quintilone & Associates, who represented the Defendant, successfully argued to have the trial court’s ruling upheld to dismiss a case pursuant to the California Code of Civil Procedure §§ 583.310, 583.360 mandatory five-year cutoff to bring a case to trial. The court of appeal held that it is the Plaintiffs’ obligation to monitor the case and keep track of relevant dates. Here the Plaintiffs refused to set the case for trial and waited almost a year after the cut off to even seek a trial date.  The court ruled in favor of Defendants despite Plaintiffs’ argument that the five-year period was tolled for 12 weeks in 2004 when there was an official moratorium on civil trials in Riverside County. If you want to review the written decision the cite is: Jordan v. Superstar Sandcars (2010) 182 Cal.App.4th 1416.

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