Modification: In re Mahoney

In re PAUL M. MAHONEY on Contempt.

SALSBURY ENGINEERING, INC.,

Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant,

v.

CONSOLIDATED CONTRACTING SERVICES, INC.,

Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent.

No. G057832

(Consol. with G057966)

(Super. Ct. No. 30-2015-00789263)

California Courts of Appeal

Fourth Appellate District

Division Three

Filed June 16, 2021

ORDER MODIFYING OPINION;

NO CHANGE IN JUDGMENT

THE COURT:^*

The opinion filed in this matter on June 10, 2021, is hereby modified as follows:

1. On page 6, the last full paragraph that finishes on page 7, delete the entire paragraph and replace with the following paragraph:

"Contempt of court is a violation of Code of Civil Procedure section 1209.  It is punishable by a maximum of 5 days jail and/or a $1000 fine. (Code Civ. Proc., § 1218.)  We find Attorney Mahoney in direct contempt for his implication that the court below was influenced by the political influence of the Irvine Company (1 count) and for his aspersion that the court was indistinguishable from or inclined to ignore the unethical conduct attributed to Attorney Thomas Girardi (1 count) and order him to pay a fine of $1,000 each, for a total of $2,000, payable in the clerk's office of this court within 60 days after this decision becomes final for all purposes.  Pursuant to Business and Professions Code section 6086.7, the clerk of this court is directed to forward to the State Bar a copy of this judgment of contempt.  Upon the finality of judgment, the clerk shall issue the remittiturs in case numbers G057832 and G057966."

This modification does not effect a change in the judgment.

^* Before Bedsworth, Acting P.J., Aronson, J., and Goethals, J.