California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Baker v. Creek, H036815 (Cal. App. 2012):
Under that standard of review, the appellate court considers "all of the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party, giving that party the benefit of every reasonable inference from the evidence tending to establish the correctness of the trial court's decision, and resolving conflicts in support of the trial court's decision." (Estate of Beard (1999) 71 Cal.App.4th 753, 778-779.) "When a trial court's factual determination is attacked on the ground that there is no substantial evidence to sustain it, the power of an appellate court begins and ends with the determination as to whether, on the entire record, there is substantial evidence, contradicted or uncontradicted, which will support the determination." (Bowers v. Bernards (1984) 150 Cal.App.3d 870, 873-874, original emphasis omitted.) As long as there is substantial evidence, the appellate court must affirm, even if the reviewing justices personally would have ruled differently if they had presided over the proceedings below and even if other substantial evidence would have support a different result. (Id. at p. 874.)
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