Reid

INTRODUCTION

This is a dispute between two sisters, plaintiff and appellant Brigette Reid and defendant and respondent Sheryl Rosenberg, regarding SD Sheryl Brigette, a limited liability company (the LLC) formed for their benefit by their father, Stanley Diller. Around the time of Diller’s death in January 2012, Rosenberg produced an operating agreement purporting to name her as the sole member and sole manager of the LLC, notwithstanding Diller’s assignment of his membership interest in the LLC to Rosenberg and Reid in equal shares. Reid filed this action seeking, as pertinent here, declaratory relief concerning ownership and control of the LLC.1 Specifically, Reid claims the operating agreement produced by Rosenberg is fraudulent and, even if genuine, is invalid. The trial court granted Rosenberg’s motion for summary adjudication of the declaratory relief claim, finding that no triable issues of material fact existed regarding the validity of the operating agreement. The court subsequently granted Rosenberg’s second motion for summary adjudication of Reid’s remaining claims and entered judgment in favor of Rosenberg. Reid contends the court erred in summarily adjudicating the…