Roy v. Fitzgerald CA4/3
William L. Roy appeals from a judgment of dismissal after the trial court granted attorney Jeanne M. Fitzgerald’s motion for summary judgment on Roy’s quiet title action against her. Roy’s complaint arose after Fitzgerald, on behalf of her client, filed with the Orange County Recorder’s office a certified copy of a spousal support modification order in favor of Roy’s ex-wife, Virginia Raeanne Roy. Roy regarded the filing as a slander on “any property he owns” in the county, including his Fullerton residence (the Property). In recording the order, Fitzgerald, a member of the bar, identified herself as an “Attorney at Law.” Roy did not sue Fitzgerald for slander of title or any other purported wrongdoing; instead, he styled his action as a “Complaint to Quiet Title,” in which he asserted that Fitzgerald “claims an interest adverse to Plaintiff [in] the Property, as the recording party of an ‘Order on Order to Show Cause Re Modification’ . . . .” After the pa
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