Sandoval

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW

A. Proof of Service of Complaint and Summons On January 25, 2018, Sandoval filed suit against Barajas alleging Barajas was at fault in their March 19, 2016 automobile collision in which Barajas’s vehicle drove into Sandoval’s vehicle. On March 7, 2018, Sandoval filed a proof of service of the summons and complaint. A professional process server declared that he had served Barajas by substituted service. Specifically, he declared that he had made four unsuccessful attempts to personally serve Barajas at 15040 Parthenia Street, Apartment 33 in the city of North Hills, Barajas’s residence at the time, over the course of a week in February 2018. The

2 declaration described how, having failed in these attempts, on February 24, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., the process server left the summons and complaint with “Maria ‘Doe,’ co-occupant (refused last name)” and mailed copies of the documents to Barajas’s residence as well. (Capitalization omitted.)

B. Default and Default Judgment On May 3, 2018, Sandoval filed a request for entry of default. The request form included a declaration of Sandoval’s counsel that, on April 30, 2018, “a copy of [the] request . . .…