§ 405.5.Applicability of Title to Actions Pending In United States District Court

Real property disputes sometimes land in federal court -- through diversity jurisdiction, a federal question tucked into the case, or removal from state court. Section 405.5 keeps this title's lis pendens system from having a gap: the recording, mailing, and expungement rules of this title apply to a federal case the same way they apply to a state court case.

In practice, this means a party litigating a real property claim in a United States District Court in California can record a notice of pendency of action under § 405.20, and the property is subject to the same expungement remedies under § 405.30 through § 405.39 that would apply if the case were pending in California superior court.