California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Licht v. Gantus, G057394 (Cal. App. 2020):
frames the issues before the court and is a jurisdictional prerequisite to the court's power to punish."'" (Koshak v. Malek (2011) 200 Cal.App.4th 1540, 1549 (Koshak).)
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