Ergur v. Trowbridge CA1/3

Filed 1/18/22 Ergur v. Trowbridge CA1/3 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

KORAY ERGUR, Plaintiff and Appellant, A163845 v. JEFFERY D. TROWBRIDGE, (San Francisco City & County Super. Ct. No. CGC-21-592041) Defendant and Respondent.

Koray Ergur, appearing in propria persona, sued Jeffery Trowbridge with a 252-page complaint seeking $13.5 quadrillion in damages for a series of alleged conspiracies and crimes Trowbridge and his family committed over the course of human history. Trowbridge, an attorney who had some years earlier secured the dismissal of a complaint Ergur brought against Trowbridge’s clients, moved to dismiss Ergur’s complaint as a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP). After the trial court granted the motion and dismissed Ergur’s complaint with prejudice, Ergur appealed. Trowbridge now moves to dismiss Ergur’s appeal as frivolous. We dismiss the appeal. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND In 2016 judicial proceedings, Trowbridge represented several parties sued by Ergur and obtained for them a dismissal of Ergur’s claims with prejudice. Ergur appealed the dismissal in Case No. A150477. By order of

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this court, we dismissed Ergur’s appeal for his failure to file a brief in conformity with the California Rules of Court and for his failure to advance any pertinent or intelligible legal argument, after giving him an opportunity to cure its defects and he failed to do so. In 2021, Ergur appearing in propria persona sued Trowbridge. According to Trowbridge, he has no connection to Ergur other than the 2016 representation, and the instant lawsuit was the product of “some sort of grudge” against him. Ergur’s complaint was a purported class action complaint for “civil and criminal penalties damages. For total ownership & stewardship of whole earth. Benefit of ‘We, the people of the earth.’ ‘The assignees & beneficiaries’ (people estimated worldwide 7.8B).”1 At 252 pages, the complaint alleged Trowbridge was “born into the royal class” and was a “well connected criminal royalty mafia member” whose family roots “can be easily traced back literally 1000 plus years into the Imperial Patrician Roman Empire Eras.” He further alleged the “Dynasty of Trowbridge’s Family Members” committed “all types of violations, endless and bottomless greed’s, crimes, frauds.” These included “Colonizing, Slavery, Human, Opium, Heroin, Trafficking, and Robbing the entire world today;” destroying Ergur’s court records and evidence; and stealing Ergur’s patents “a/k/a ‘The Internet.’ ” In his prayer for relief, Ergur requested among other things a declaration that profits and property possessed by Trowbridge were obtained through “systematic persecution, extermination, deportation, torture, force, and murder violated international . . . law” and $13.5 quadrillion. An additional prayer included “one faith for all,” “one equal justice for all,” “one currency,” “one alphabet, one language for all,” and a “Constitution” and