Raimova v. West Coast Towing Services CA4/3

Filed 7/10/23 Raimova v. West Coast Towing Services CA4/3

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

RUHANGIZ RAIMOVA et al.,

Plaintiffs and Appellants, G061524

v. (Super. Ct. No. 30-2015-00797946)

WEST COAST TOWING SERVICES, OPINION INC., et al.,

Defendants and Respondents.

Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Orange County, Walter P. Schwarm, Judge. Affirmed. Ruhangiz Raimova and Esmail Ghane in pro per., for Plaintiffs and Appellants. No appearance for Defendants and Respondents. * * *

This is our fourth opinion arising from plaintiffs Ruhangiz Raimova and Esmail Ghane’s lawsuit for conversion against West Coast Towing Services, Inc. (West Coast) and Clear Choice Lien Services Inc. (Clear Choice). As we summarized in our prior opinion, “Plaintiffs’ . . . vehicle was stolen, recovered, and then stored on defendant [West Coast’s] facility. After the vehicle had been there 43 days, West Coast sold the vehicle [for $750]. Plaintiffs brought the underlying suit for conversion, claiming West Coast and defendant Clear Choice . . . , illegally sold the vehicle without notifying them.” (Raimova v. West Coast Towing Services Inc. (Mar. 26, 2021, G058280, G058431) [nonpub. opn.] (Raimova III).) The trial court entered summary judgment against plaintiffs, which, in Raimova III, we affirmed. We also affirmed an earlier order in which the court had permitted Raimova to amend her complaint to add Ghane as a plaintiff, but only upon the condition that Raimova pay approximately $6,500 to Clear Choice. This remarkable condition had a remarkable impetus: Ghane had been masquerading as Raimova for the entire two years of litigation, and only on the eve of trial was it revealed that the man everyone thought was the plaintiff was, in fact, not the plaintiff. His wife was the plaintiff. This rendered various hearings that Clear Choice had attended futile because the true plaintiff had not been in attendance. The $6,500 was meant to compensate Clear Choice for its losses. Which brings us to this appeal, described by plaintiffs as follows: “This is an appeal from an Illegal Order of 6//14/22 granting $4,317.95 costs to Farahnaz Gorjiyan president of illegal suspended West Coast Towing Services Inc. & granting $1,436.46 cost to Clear Choice Lien Service Inc. despite Plfs’ objections [citations] & granting $6,519.29 sanctions to Mr. Ross Stucker/Ccls which had to be paid & was paid by Apts/Plfs [citation] and appeal from final summary judgement on 10-04-2019 [citation] and various other judgments including CPC 170.6s from 12-17-2018 [citation]; 10-30-2017 CCP 170.6 [citation]; 03-22-2018 [citation]; 12-17-2018 [citation]