The Urban Wildlands Group v. City of Los Angeles
In an environmental action, challenging defendant city's finding that a project was exempt from formal environmental review, the trial court's grant of mandatory relief to the plaintiff under Code of Civil Procedure section 473(b) is reversed where: 1) such relief is limited to default, default judgments, and dismissal; and 2) the trial court's grant of judgment to the defendant after plaintiff counsel failed to prepare and lodge the administrative record as stipulated does not fall within either category.