Stuck with an all-purpose judge who hates your client’s guts? Used up your peremptory challenge and then got assigned to a judge who always rules against you? Don’t forget about your appellate “get out of jail free” card.

Attorneys know that they get one peremptory challenge under Code of Civil Procedure section 170.6. What they may not realize is that the second paragraph section 170.6(a)(2) provides that either party can exercise an additional peremptory challenge against the trial judge:

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