County of Orange v. Chen
The County of Orange (the County) obtained a judgment against Kang Shen Chen (Chen) and Chen’s wife in 2007. In 2015, Chen filed a motion to vacate or set aside the judgment on the ground it was procured through extrinsic fraud and/or extrinsic mistake. Chen contends that because the County did not list a lawsuit against him and his wife in the adjustment plan the County filed in its bankruptcy proceedings in 1996, Chen and his wife had a defense of res judicata or estoppel against the County’s lawsuit. We conclude, as did the trial court, that Chen’s lack of knowledge of the contents of a publicly-available document filed in a federal court does not amount to extrinsic fraud or extrinsic mistake. We therefore affirm.
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