Cunningham

BACKGROUND

Plaintiff’s Causes of Action Against Defendants In June 2011, plaintiff, through legal counsel, Patrick Missud, filed a complaint for damages against defendants John Scott McKay, Michael Coombs, and Tamara Woods. Plaintiff also sued Judge Charlotte Walter Woolard and Judge Loretta M. Giorgi, both of the Superior Court for the City and County of San Francisco.2 In one cause of action against all three defendants, plaintiff alleged defendant McKay, as legal counsel for defendants Coombs and Woods and on their behalf, engaged in various acts of fraud and intentional deceit in a prior action, in which defendants had won an arbitration award against plaintiff in a residential property dispute that had been confirmed by the superior court.3 These included three sets of purported intentional misrepresentations: (1) to plaintiff, in April 2010, that defendants Coombs and Woods were not interested in litigating so as to induce plaintiff not to take legal action against them; (2) to the court, in September 2010, in moving to compel arbitration that a 2007 “TIC Agreement” (TICA) was the one and only agreement between plaintiff and defendants Coombs and Woods, while concealing the…