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OC Superior Court · Dept. C61
The eviction practice that appeared for the landlord, documented from the public record and the court record — the forms relied upon, the public-facing materials, and the conduct of record — then routed to the dossiers and the thematic pages that take each layer in depth. References are to Steven D. Silverstein, California State Bar No. 86466, exclusively. No finding has been made.
#0084411044 held more than two months, no endorsement (EX-015/EX-016; T-B); joint check #0084412016 negotiated under both endorsements, the depositing account a subpoena target (EX-034; T-A). The record never asserts whose account received the joint instrument.Assume the reviewing partner opens this section after the parties and before the enforcement portfolio. Opposing counsel is documented here the way an intake memo documents an adversary: from the adversary’s own public record and the court record — the practice’s published instruction, its marketing, its filed forms, and its conduct of record — and then routed to the dossiers and the thematic pages that take each layer in depth.
The practice’s own materials supply the spine. In a trade-journal article the practice still self-publishes, opposing counsel instructs landlords that the summary-judgment declaration the attorney prepares “acts as his testimony in court” — a paper declaration offered in the place of the live, cross-examinable witness. A 2012 Los Angeles Daily Journal feature records the same practice describing its work as cookie-cutter, conveyor-belt volume: as many as eight appearances at once, six days a week. The practice’s own profiles state that it has been asked to sit as judge pro tem in the same county courts where it appears. Each is the practice’s own statement, captured and dated; none depends on the publisher’s characterization. The question this section presents is whether that self-described method — paper testimony, run at volume — met the documentary payment record in this matter. No finding has been made.
Two record facts frame the encounter. First, the same counsel removed the prior tenant of the same property for the same ownership roughly three years earlier — a docket fact established by the certified Harman docket (EX-036, Tran v. Harman, OCSC 30-2021-01237695); substance extraction is reserved (T-C), so the pattern is recited as docket existence only, motive unstated. Second, in federal court a jury once returned a verdict that the practice’s own three-day notice failed the federal disclosure statute and that the practice was a debt collector — before that judgment was set aside on stipulation and the case dismissed with prejudice, leaving no surviving adjudication (Bea-Mone v. Silverstein, C.D. Cal. 8:17-cv-00550). The marketing the practice publishes today sells the prevention of the very defect that vacated federal record once attributed to its own notice. Question presented; no finding has been made.
| Forum · record | File of record | Status · record vocabulary |
|---|---|---|
| CA State Bar · OCTC | Steven D. Silverstein · Bar #86466 | Formal review open. No finding has been made. |
| CA State Bar · Enforcement Div. | Richard J. Rosiak · Bar #141430 | Under formal review · Examiner Devin Urbany. No finding has been made. |
| U.S. District Court · C.D. Cal. | Bea-Mone v. Silverstein · 8:17-cv-00550 | Jury verdict, Nov. 2018; judgment set aside on stipulation, Oct. 2019; dismissed with prejudice. No surviving adjudication. |
| Pattern docket · same property | Tran v. Harman · 30-2021-01237695 (EX-036) | Same counsel, same property, prior tenant removed ~3 years earlier. Docket fact only; substance reserved (T-C). |
| Public materials · captured | Daily Journal 12/31/2012 · MSJ article · EX-043 | Self-published article and 2012 feature captured and dated; forms library preserved to archive.org. The practice’s own words. |
T-A — the deposit-item record for joint check #0084412016 (endorsement sequence, depositing account, ownership); until returned, the depositing account is a subpoena target, never named. T-B — the cure-check custody endpoint for #0084411044; until ruled, every page states “more than two months, no endorsement,” no interval asserted. T-C — Harman docket substance (EX-036); until extracted, Harman is docket fact only. Two further record targets, stated as known gaps: the Memorandum of Costs ($2,005 confirmed amount; composition reserved, In Court page) and the cure-window receipt of record (The Routing page, pending confirmation against the move-in admission). Each is a gap stated as such — which is what distinguishes a documentary record from an argument.
This portal is a public-interest case file assembled and published by Michael A. Gasio, plaintiff pro se in Gasio v. Tran et al., Orange County Superior Court Case No. 30-2024-01410991-CL-UD-CJC. The plaintiff is not an attorney. Nothing on this portal constitutes legal advice.
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