Judge: Ronald F. Frank, Case: 21TRCV00401, Date: 2023-02-03 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 21TRCV00401    Hearing Date: February 3, 2023    Dept: 8

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HEARING DATE:                 February 3, 2023 

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CASE NUMBER:                  21TRCV00401

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CASE NAME:                        KCS West, Inc. V. Sephirot Constructors Corp., etc., et al

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TRIAL DATE:                        August 23, 2023

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MOTION:¿                              (1) Motion to be Relieved as Counsel (as to several clients)

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Tentative Rulings:                  (1) GRANTED. 

On May 28, 2021, plaintiff KCS West, Inc. filed a complaint against defendants Sephirot Constructors Corp., Sephirot Materials Corp., Sephirot Rentals Corp., Isaac Joel Ngalubutu, Arthur Robert Krowitz, and Business Alliance Insurance Company for (1) breach of contract, (2) intentional misrepresentation, (3) negligent misrepresentation, (4) conversion, (5) enforce claim on contractor license bond, and (6) accounting. On March 11, 2022, plaintiff filed a FAC adding several defendants.

On January 3, 2023, Defendants, Isaac Joel Ngalubutu’s, Sephirot Constructions Corp., counsel, Martin S Rudoy and Rudoy Law (“Rudoy”) filed the instant Motion to be Relieved as Counsel for Defendant. On January 9, 2023, Rudoy filed Motions to be Relieved as Counsel for Defendants, Sephirot Materials Corp., Sephirot Rentals Corp., Sephirot Royal Funds, LLC. No opposition was filed.

Rudoy’s Motions to Be Relieved As Counsel are GRANTED and the Order will be signed at the hearing. “After the order is signed, a copy of the signed order must be served on the client and on all parties that have appeared in the case.” (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.1362(e).) The Order on this Motion will not be effective “until proof of service of a copy of the signed order on Plaintiff and Defendant has been filed with the court.” (Id.) 

The Court further orders Mr. Rudoy to give notice of the Court’s Orders on his motions, and to include in his notice of ruling an admonition that neither a corporation nor an LLC can lawfully represent itself in a lawsuit, so there is an urgency that the corporate defendants find new counsel immediately and have new counsel file a substitution of attorney in this action.  Mr. Rudoy shall also provide the name and email address for his client contact at each of the corporate defendants as to whom an order granting the motion to be relieved as counsel pertains so that the other parties can serve pleadings, documents, and notices to those parties until they have new counsel appear on their behalves.