In re Marriage of Stich

2 Citing cases

  1. Banks v. Dominican College

    35 Cal.App.4th 1545 (Cal. Ct. App. 1995)   Cited 51 times   1 Legal Analyses
    In Banks v. Dominican College (1995) 35 Cal.App.4th 1545, 1551 [ 42 Cal.Rptr.2d 110] (Banks), the Court of Appeal affirmed summary judgment in favor of a university, upholding its decision to dismiss the plaintiff from a teaching credential program.

    This opinion constitutes a written statement of our reasons for imposing sanctions under Flaherty, supra, 31 Cal.3d at page 654. This appeal shows a disturbing similarity to the facts of previous cases in which the courts have been forced to award sanctions, including one of our prior opinions, In re Marriage of Stich (1985) 169 Cal.App.3d 64, 75-78 [ 214 Cal.Rptr. 919].) In Stich, as here, a determined litigant with no meritorious legal arguments went through a battery of retained lawyers, unfounded disqualification motions aimed at trial judges, and other similar vexatious maneuvers before proceeding in propria persona to prosecute a frivolous appeal for the apparent purpose of harassment.

  2. Kabbe v. Miller

    226 Cal.App.3d 93 (Cal. Ct. App. 1990)   Cited 36 times

    In some cases the court found the appeal was brought for the purposes of delay. (See, e.g., In re Marriage of Stich (1985) 169 Cal.App.3d 64, 75 [ 214 Cal.Rptr. 919] ; Weber v. Willard (1989) 207 Cal.App.3d 1006, 1010 [ 255 Cal.Rptr. 165].) Because Ms. Kabbe is the plaintiff in this action, delay is not a factor here.