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Summary Judgment amendments

The link below to the amendments to the summary judgment law does not work. The best I can do is send you here and tell you it is chapter number 448 chaptered in 2002. The summary of the changes from the law is as follows:

Existing law prescribes the service deadlines, continuance
procedures, and appellate review of motions for summary judgment.
This bill would revise those provisions to extend the service
deadlines from 28 to 75 days, to allow additional discovery after
continuance, as specified, to require a reviewing court to allow
supplemental briefing on grounds granting summary adjudication not
relied upon by the trial court, and to make technical changes.

Under section (m)(2) of the new law, additional facts may be presented to the appellate court that would defeat the summary judgment even if those facts were not presented down below.