Woods v. Dept. of Housing & Community Development CA2/8

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

NIRA WOODS, B330779

Plaintiff and Appellant, (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. 20TRCV00564) v.

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, et al.,

Defendants and Respondents.

APPEAL from a judgment and orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, John J. Kralik, Judge. Affirmed. Nira Woods, in pro. per., for Plaintiff and Appellant. Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Jodi L. Cleesattle, Assistant Attorney General, Bruce D. McGagin and Jamil R. Ghannam, Deputy Attorneys General for Defendants and Respondents State of California by and through the Department of Housing and Community Development, Richard Weinart, Kim Borden and Edwin Galindo. Jeanne-Marie K. Litvin, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Respondents City of Torrance and Jon Megeff. _________________________

Nira Woods (appellant) filed three notices of appeal: the first on June 22, 2023 from the trial court’s order of June 16, 2023 denying a motion for protective order; the second on June 26, 2023; and the third on July 17, 2023 from an order of dismissal dated July 14, 2023 and ensuing judgment. On September 19, 2023, this court dismissed the appeal filed June 26, 2023. We address the remaining notices of appeal in this opinion. Appellant makes numerous arguments on appeal. We do not address any of the arguments. We deem them forfeited or waived because appellant did not provide sufficient legal authority and citation to the record on appeal to support her contentions. We affirm. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND On August 11, 2020, appellant initiated the underlying matter by filing a civil complaint against 20 defendants. After two rounds of demurrers, plaintiff filed a second amended complaint on July 26, 2021 against 15 defendants. The second amended complaint alleges causes of action for injunction, invasion of privacy, violation of freedom to practice religion, hate crimes, false imprisonment, endangerment, fraud, actionable fraud, constructive fraud, actual fraud, violation and infringement of a lease agreement dated April 1, 2003. The content of the second amended complaint is confusing and difficult to discern. It alleges appellant has an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in engineering, physics, and mathematics. She is the lessee of private land identified as unit 68 of the Skyline Mobile Park located in Torrance, California. She signed a lease agreement with the