What are the consequences of failing to make a reasoned legal argument in a motion to amend and sustain a demurrer to any cause of action in the first amended complaint?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Sedgwick v. Bank of Am. Corp., G047001 (Cal. App. 2013):
contention plaintiffs may have as to the sustaining of the demurrer to any cause of action in the first amended complaint is forfeited for failure to make reasoned legal argument. (Benach v. County of Los Angeles (2007) 149 Cal.App.4th 836, 852.)
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