Mahdavi v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

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• court cannot require a person determined to be a vexatious litigant in prior litigation to seek leave of court before filing an appeal in a case in which the vexatious litigant is the defendant
• “A defendant who appeals an adverse ruling is not filing ‘new' litigation or ‘maintaining’ litigation, but rather, is attempting to ‘undo’ the results of litigation that has been instituted against him or her.”
• court cannot require a person determined to be a vexatious litigant in prior litigation to seek leave of court before filing an appeal in a case in which the vexatious litigant is the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).