PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Pleading
......Peremptory Challenges
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Error to grant company's peremptory challenge where its related company filed a previous peremptory challenge, thereby exhausting its side's sole peremptory challenge under CCP 170.6.

P's peremptory challenge to judge should have been accepted where P's action, reassigned to that of another plaintiff who had already used a challenge, was not a continuation of first action.

Trial court properly declined to accept dismissed D's CCP 170.6 peremptory challenge where, because of the dismissal, motion was not duly and properly made by a party, and was thus moot.