Perez v. Calvin CA5

Filed 1/30/25 Perez v. Calvin CA5

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

SABRINA VERONICA PEREZ, F087496 Plaintiff and Appellant, (Super. Ct. No. VCU296024) v.

BRENT CALVIN et al., OPINION Defendants and Respondents.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Tulare County. Bret D. Hillman, Judge. Sabrina Veronica\\ Perez, in pro. per., for Plaintiff and Appellant. Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo, Mary Beth de Goede and Alex A. Lozada, for Defendants and Respondents. -ooOoo-

Sabrina Veronica Perez is the plaintiff and appellant in this civil matter, which arose in the Tulare County Superior Court. Perez represented herself in the trial court and is self-represented on appeal as well. Perez has filed largely unintelligible briefs that do not clearly identify (1) the order she is appealing from or (2) the issue or issues on appeal. We affirm the judgment. Perez’s opening brief includes a one-paragraph long “statement of facts,” as follows: “Plaintiff Sabrina is a former College of the Sequoias student, student at the time of causes of actions of this case. Defendant Brent Calvin is College of the Sequoias President and Defendant Juan Vasquez is a Dean at College of the Sequoias. Juan Vasquez and Brent Calvin falsely accused and continued to falsely accuse Plaintiff Sabrina of hacking into school computers, threatening, academic dishonesty, extorting, being hostile, smoking at College of Sequoias, etc., without proof and evidence to substantiate defendants’ lies that are all expressed in original complaint and amended complaint on record of appeal. Cause of Actions are negligence and gross negligence, defamation of character slander, libel. [P]laintiff Sabrina was falsely accused by defendants after Sabrina exercised 1st amendment[.] Defendants retaliated to Plaintiff Sabrina exercising first amendment right by expressing her opinion, violating Plaintiff Sabrina’s 1st amendment.” (Some capitalization omitted.) As for procedural history, Perez’s opening brief contains a one-paragraph long “statement of the case,” as follows: “Sabrina Veronica Perez filed a complaint on February 2023 alleging that Brent Calvin and Juan Vasquez wrote false accusations about Sabrina on her college records and college employees Brent Calvin and Juan Vasquez refused to take off the false accusations about Sabrina before and after Sabrina wrote formal complaints about being falsely accused to the college by Juan Vasquez and Brent Calvin. Tulare County Superior Court Judge Hillman granted the defendants a motion to