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2024-1401357·orange·Civil·Motion to be relieved as counsel
Hearing about 2 months agoGRANTED

Knutson vs. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Company

Motion to be relieved as counsel

Hearing date
Jul 15, 2026
Department
N18
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Parties

PlaintiffSharon Knutson
PlaintiffTodd Knutson
DefendantColdwell Banker Residential Brokerage Company

Attorneys

Alexander Contifor Plaintiff

Ruling

All counsel and self-represented parties appearing remotely must check-in online through the court’s civil video appearance website at Civil Remote Hearings | Superior Court of California | County of Orange (occourts.org) before the designated hearing time. Once the online check-in is completed, participants will be prompted to join the courtroom’s Zoom hearing session. Participants will initially be directed to a virtual waiting room pending the start of their specific video hearing. Check-in instructions and instructional video are available at Civil Remote Hearings | Superior Court of California | County of Orange (occourts.org) The Court’s “Appearance Procedures and Information--Civil Unlimited and Complex” and “Guidelines for Remote Appearances” also are available at Civil Remote Hearings | Superior Court of California | County of Orange (occourts.org) Those procedures and guidelines will be strictly enforced.

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NO FILMING, BROADCASTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, OR ELECTRONIC RECORDING IS PERMITTED OF THE VIDEO SESSION PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA RULES OF COURT, RULE 1.150 AND ORANGE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT RULE 180.

# Case Name Tentative

1. 2024-1401357 The Court, on its own motion, advances the motion to be relieved as Knutson vs. counsel of Plaintiff, Sharon Knutson. Coldwell Banker The motions of Alexander Conti, counsel of record for plaintiffs Residential Sharon Knutson and Todd Knutson, for orders relieving him as Brokerage counsel for each of Plaintiffs are granted. [ROA ## 52, 57.] Company The court will interlineate the new trial date into the proposed orders and delete references to the prior date and will sign the amended orders.

Upon the signing of the orders, counsel shall serve the signed order on each of Plaintiffs and all parties that have appeared. Counsel will be relieved as counsel of record for each of Plaintiffs effective upon the filing of the proofs of service of the signed orders upon each of Plaintiffs and all other parties.

2. 2025-1488642 Defendant Pacific Dealer Center, Inc.’s motion for relief from the Swannie vs. default entered against it in this action is granted. Code Civ. Proc. Swannie §473(b), (d).

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