Lorch

Filed 5/16/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

LEAH LORCH, D083609

Petitioner,

v. (San Diego County Super. Ct. No. 37-2020-00043357-CU-BC-CTL)

THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN

DIEGO COUNTY,

Respondent;

KIA MOTORS AMERICA, INC.,

Real Party in Interest.

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING in mandate challenging an order of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Timothy B. Taylor, Judge. Petition granted. Strategic Legal Practices, Tionna G. Cavalho, David W. Lunn; Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Laurie J. Hepler, Cynthia E. Tobisman and Joseph V. Bui for Petitioner. No appearance for Respondent. Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, Tammy Bokmuller, Michael J. Hurvitz and Patrick J. Raue for Real Party in Interest. Leah Lorch petitions this court for a writ of mandate after the trial court denied her Code of Civil Procedure section 170.6 peremptory challenge to Judge Timothy B. Taylor, the judge newly assigned to preside over the

trial of her case.1 Judge Taylor ruled that the peremptory challenge was untimely under the master calendar rule, which requires a party…