Tuli

Filed 10/16/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

RANDHIR S. TULI, B321499

Plaintiff and Appellant, Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. (BC542350) v.

SPECIALTY SURGICAL

CENTER OF THOUSAND

OAKS, LLC et al.,

Defendants and Respondents.

APPEAL from judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Gail Feuer and Robert Draper, Judges. Affirmed. Law Office of Bruce Adelstein and Bruce Adelstein for Plaintiff and Appellant. Holland and Knight, Jennifer L. Weaver and David I. Holtzman; the Ruttenberg Law Firm and David I. Ruttenberg for Defendants and Respondents. ____________________ Randhir Tuli is not a medical doctor, but he helped form a medical business. For a time, Tuli contributed to the enterprise, but then he lapsed into inactivity: he did nothing productive. He did, however, keep taking millions from the enterprise’s profits. His hardworking surgeon colleagues in this business became restive and sought to buy him out, but Tuli refused to surrender his lucrative perch. Then Tuli directed his lawyer to send an aggressive—and fateful—letter to a wide swath of…