MOLA DEVELOPMENT CORP. v. CITY OF SEAL BEACH

Docket No. G014576.

57 Cal.App.4th 405 (1997)

MOLA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF SEAL BEACH et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

August 27, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Ronald A. Zumbrun, James S. Burling, Orrin F. Finch and Alexander Dushku for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Quinn M. Barrow, City Attorney, Richards, Watson & Gershon, Glenn R. Watson, Gregory M. Kunert and Rubin D. Weiner for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

CROSBY, J.

(1a) Is the mere filing of a lawsuit for administrative mandamus the same as pursuing it to decision? Mola Development Corporation argues it is, but we disagree. Mola filed an action for administrative mandamus to overturn the City of Seal Beach's quasi-judicial decision to disapprove a vesting tentative map, but voluntarily dismissed it on the eve of trial. That dismissal precludes, we will hold, a...

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