Does a defendant need to show reasonable diligence to determine whether a plaintiff has filed a similar claim in a related case?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Missionary Guadalupanas of the Holy Spirit Inc. v. Rouillard, 251 Cal.Rptr.3d 1, 38 Cal.App.5th 421 (Cal. App. 2019):

court record in a case that had been designated as a related case. Reasonable diligence would have included staying abreast of the record in the related case. (See Rubin v. De Lao (1952) 110 Cal.App.2d 345, 347-348, 242 P.2d 360 [the defendant failed to show reasonable diligence

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where he did not search court records to determine whether plaintiff had filed similar claims].)

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