For your reading pleasure

Today's DJ has H&L's Eric Boorstin in Prompt Payment Doesn't Waive Your Right to Appeal, about new CCP section 695.215.

• Section 695.215 will become effective Jan. 1, 2020. The Conference of California Bar Associations sponsored the original version of the bill -- a proposed amendment to Section 695.220. Although the final version states that the new statute, Section 695.215, is meant to be declaratory of existing law, the section is important because it resolves two ambiguities that may have stood in the way of defendants promptly paying the severable portions of money judgments that they did not wish to contest on appeal.

• Section 695.215 sailed through the Legislature without opposition because it is an uncontroversial, common-sense provision that will benefit plaintiffs and defendants alike by encouraging defendants to promptly pay the severable portions of judgments they do not wish to contest. Indeed, the comments circulating among members of the Los Angeles appellate community who represent plaintiffs, defendants, and public entities have been uniformly positive.

And CLA Litigation Section's Litigation Update for July 2019 is now available! (4/3's Justice Moore is the Senior Editor.)
And speaking of Justice Moore, here's one to file under "dodging appellate sanctions" -- but not really!