Choice Hotels Internat., Inc. v. Bhakta CA2/6
Defendants Bhupendra Bhakta and Arvind Patel appeal a $40,837.57 judgment entered against them in favor of plaintiff Choice Hotels International, Inc. (Choice). This judgment originated from a Maryland state court and was filed in the Ventura County Superior Court under the Sister State Money Judgments Act (SSMJA). (Code Civ. Proc., § 1710.10 et seq.) We conclude, among other things, that 1) Bhakta and Patel did not comply with or exhaust the statutory procedures for challenging a sister-state judgment that were available for them in the Ventura County Superior Court; and 2) they have not shown that the judgment the superior court entered was invalid, incorrect or that the SSMJA statutory procedure violated their constitutional rights. We affirm.
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