What is the test for abuse of equitable remedies?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Willis v. L. A. Cnty. Waterworks Dist. No. 40 (In re Antelope Valley Groundwater Cases), 277 Cal.Rptr.3d 333, 62 Cal.App.5th 992 (Cal. App. 2021):
The oft-stated test for abuse of discretion is "whether the trial court exceeded the bounds of reason. When two or more inferences can reasonably be deduced from the facts, the reviewing court has no authority to substitute its decision for that of the trial court." ( Shamblin v. Brattain (1988) 44 Cal.3d 474, 478479, 243 Cal.Rptr. 902, 749 P.2d 339.) The court's discretion as to equitable remedies, while not unlimited, should be granted deference when
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