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C.A. Faults Clerk’s Office for Bouncing of Notice of Appeal

Sep 16, 2026

Unreasonableness on the part of a Superior Court clerk’s office in bouncing a notice of appeal has, for the second time in a period of less than a month, drawn scorn of a court of appeal, with the First District’s Div. Five holding that there was no justification for the rejection of such a document and that a judge subsequently erred in sustaining a demurrer without leave to amend and ordering a judgment of dismissal.