Akopyan v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County
Annotate this CaseThe Court of Appeal granted a writ of mandate compelling the trial court to vacate its order granting real party in interest's peremptory challenge to Judge Anthony J. Mohr under Code of Civil Procedure section 170.6 filed after this court conditionally reversed the judgment entered after a jury trial in favor of petitioner on real party's claim for medical malpractice. The court agreed with petitioner that the trial court has not yet been "assigned to conduct a new trial" on remand under section 170.6, subdivision (a)(2). Therefore, the court held that the trial court should have waited to rule on the peremptory challenge until it conducted the Batson/Wheeler inquiry, then granted the disqualification motion only if it ordered a new trial.
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