1191 REVIEW DENIED If a case is sent to judicial arbitration within the last six months of the five year period after which it is dismissable for failure diligently to prosecute, the running of the five year period is tolled from the four-and-one-half-year point until a request for trial de novo is filed; however, upon filing the request for trial de novo, plaintiff has an obligation to exercise reasonable diligence in requesting a trial date before the end of the statutory period.CitationLEE v PARK (Missed Deadline) 43 CA4 305 [See: CCP 583.310, 583.360, 1141.17; Drummond v Murata 227 CA3 44, Howard v Thrifty 10 C4 424, at 8/95; Dresser v Bindi 221 CA3 1493]
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