California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Prestige Autotech Corp. v. Wuxi Chenhwat Almatech Co., E067138 (Cal. App. 2019):
finding that a party has shown good cause for relief from default and a finding that the party has "articulate[d] a satisfactory excuse for not presenting a defense . . . ." (Rappleyea v. Campbell, supra, 8 Cal.4th at p. 982.) Particularly in the context of the trial court's exercise of its inherent equitable powerrather than, say, the application of a standard set by statutesuch quibbles over phrasing have little persuasive force.
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