Alioto

Alioto Fish Co., Ltd. v. Alioto

Good Law
1994 Cal. App. LEXIS 1065·27 Cal. App. 4th 1669·34 Cal. Rptr. 2d 244·94 Daily Journal DAR 12314·94 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6698
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaAugust 31, 1994Docket Nos. A060918, A060528, A060131, A059738, A059262, A058244California7,643 words

Opinion

Opinion

Stein, J.

In these six consolidated appeals Joseph L. Alioto, Angela M. Alioto, and Alioto & Alioto (hereinafter, Joseph L. Alioto Group), Joseph M. Alioto and John I. Alioto, appeal numerous orders of the trial court enjoining some or all of the appellants to comply with a receiver order and assessing sanctions for the willful failure to comply with the order. Joseph M. Alioto also seeks review of an order denying his motion to modify or dissolve the receivership. The Joseph L. Alioto Group also appeals an order levying property they allege was a client trust account. They also appeal the court’s denial of a third party claim to those funds and an order approving allocation of the funds.

Several of the appeals are untimely or are from nonappealable orders and, therefore, must be dismissed. With respect to the remaining appeals, we shall exercise our power to stay or dismiss them based on appellants’ record of persistent willful disobedience of the trial court’s orders. (See Moffat v. Moffat (1980) 27 Cal.3d 645, 652, 653 [ 165 Cal.Rptr. 877 , 612 P.2d 967 ]; MacPherson v. MacPherson (1939) 13 Cal.2d 271, 277 [ 89 P.2d 382 ]; Say & Say v. Castellano (1994) 22 Cal.App.4th 88, 94 […

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