DC Partners v. Gnessin CA4/3
“‘A judgment or order of the lower court is presumed correct. All intendments and presumptions are indulged to support it on matters as to which the record is silent, and error must be affirmatively shown. This is not only a general principle of appellate practice but an ingredient of the constitutional doctrine of reversible error.’ [Citations.]” (Denham v. Superior Court (1970) 2 Cal.3d 557, 564.) “A necessary corollary to this rule is that if the record is inadequate for meaningful review, the appellant defaults and the decision of the trial court should be affirmed.” (Mountain Lion Coalition v. Fish & Game Com. (1989) 214 Cal.App.3d 1043, 1051, fn. 9.)
DC Partners, Inc.’s appeal runs headlong into this general principle and its corollary. The record on appeal is so silent that it all but disappears. Accordingly, we must affirm the judgment of the lower court, which found that cross-defendant and respondent Amir Gnessin had not violated either Labor Code sec
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