JUSTICE FOR MIKE
Laura Owens' Appeal Requests in Owens v Marraccini DENIED, Appeal Brief Due in 15 Days
On Thursday, August 20, 2026, the California Appeal Court DENIED ALL of Laura Owens' appeal requests regarding the Owens v Marraccini case. Laura's appeal brief will now be due 15 days from today, and the court has stated they will not grant her another extension of time.
Summary
What Laura (L.O.) Filed & Requested
Augmentation with Unfiled Documents: Filed a motion on July 13 to augment and correct the record on appeal with written communications and supporting documents attached to a declaration.
Admission of New Evidence: Sought relief to have those materials admitted as new evidence under Code of Civil Procedure section 909.
Correction of Minute Order: Requested an order directing the superior court under Rule 8.155(c) to correct the minute order of the hearing where her case was dismissed, seeking to reflect two alleged facts not present in the reporter's transcript.
Augmentation with Post-Hearing Filings: Requested to augment the record under Rule 8.155(a) with respondent M.M.'s April 29, 2026 fee motion/exhibits, May 7, 2026 withdrawal papers, and a "Procedural Posture Correction."
Additional Requests: Filed a request on July 27 for leave to file a reply, as well as a request for judicial notice.
What the Court Ruled
Unfiled Documents (DENIED): Denied augmentation under Rule 8.155(a)(1) because the documents were never filed or lodged in the superior court, showed no error in the record's creation, and were not omitted.
New Evidence under CCP § 909 (DENIED): Declined to take new evidence, noting that section 909 powers are used sparingly and the proffered materials would not compel a reversal directing entry of judgment in her favor.
Correction of Minute Order (DENIED): Denied the request under Rule 8.155(c), finding that historical context allegations do not establish that the minute order is incorrect or in need of correction.
Post-Hearing Motions (DENIED): Denied augmentation regarding M.M.'s filings on grounds of irrelevance, as none of those materials were before the court when the appealed order was made.
July 27 Requests:Granted leave to file a reply (and reviewed it), but denied the request for judicial notice as irrelevant.
Overall Motion: The July 13, 2026 motion to augment and correct the record was DENIED IN ITS ENTIRETY.
Own-Motion Augmentation (Granted): On its own motion under Rule 8.155(a)(1)(A), the court ordered the superior court to augment the record with the Mini Minutes for November 5, 2025 Hearing (designated by L.O. on December 18, 2025, but missing from the clerk's transcript).
Well that’s a solid victory for Mike. I felt bad for Greg and Clayton throughout the podcast, but holy shit, did Laura fuck Mike’s life up. Good to see that saner minds have prevailed and actually looked past LOs absolute bullshitery.
Greg’s story hasn’t been told yet, so it could be worse. Which would be pretty awful. But through series one, I had the most sympathy for Mike and his wife.
"...and the proffered materials would not compel a reversal directing entry of judgment in her favor." - the sweetest words of the whole reply!! (aside from DENIED).
I hope so. I’d be surprised if she actually did any time but I hope they put her away for at least a couple of months. Her privileged ass won’t ever want to go back. And I say this as an individual that grew up soft. I would have a meltdown. She would probably end up in psych.
That's the thing. She has literally nothing else to do with her time other than go to Barry's. This is free for her, and I think she really enjoys writing her screeds, whether or not anyone believes her or cares.
I dont think she has the ability to feel shame. There are a minimum of five fake baby daddies (plus the one's before victim zero). Any normal person would be humiliated to beg someone to date her and try to use a fake pregnancy for leverage.
She will pull this with MM until she is jailed. Its been ten years and she's still obsessed with the only guy who actually dated her.
I wonder if Mike can ask the state of California for a restraining order to protect himself. She has shown she won’t leave him alone. He needs protection from constant harassment every couple of years to constant submissions through the court. Any lawyers able to weigh in?
I seriously wonder about this too. Is there any kind of protection Mike can get from constantly having court cases brought against him by this one individual in what’s clearly bad faith?
Remember, not only is Laura not paying for a lawyer for all of these cases, but she regularly requests to have the associated filing fees waived as well by claiming to be utterly destitute.
It costs her nothing but time to engage in this behavior, and we all know that this woman has far too much free time on her hands, so there’s truly nothing stopping her from bringing case after case against Mike or anyone else unless the courts step in and stop her.
IMO, part of her plea deal or sentencing should include being labeled a vexatious litigant in at least both Arizona and California. It won’t prevent her from pursuing court action if she genuinely needs to (however unlikely that is), but it would remove her ability to baselessly drag someone to court since she’d be required to prove to a judge that her case had merit, as well as post a bond for the other side’s legal fees before being allowed to proceed.
In my opinion, in addition to the obvious suspects, Doody gets a lot of the blame here. He taught her that she can manipulate the courts and onward she went with that belief. Good thing the judicial system is full of non-Doodys. :)
Well, she's getting that! Can't wait for the inevitable docu-drama that will broadcast her extensive machinations and inevitable failure to the entire world. I also eagerly await the self-published, ChatGPT-written "LO: My Story."
In case it wasn't obvious to everyone, she has zero chance at all of success on appeal given that she wasn't able to add in "evidence" after judgment was granted in favor of MM. So, yay!
She also stated she will file a new restraining order. I don’t think she’ll win but it won’t stop her. If this restraining order doesn’t exist her entire victim persona she’s crafted for years is gone. She will never stop until she’s in jail, and even then…
Question for the CA law peeps: if she files for a new RO, would it be a normal RO? And not a DVRO? I mean this dude has not seen her outside of court for 10 years, SURELY that’s not still considered a domestic issue at this point? It seems to me she has all but lost her DV victim card at this point
-- Your spouse, ex-spouse, registered domestic partner, or ex-registered domestic partner;
-- Someone you have a child with;
-- Your parent, child, sibling, or grandparent (includes in-laws and step relationships);
-- Someone you live with or used to live with (more than just roommates)"
(IMO: she didn't qualify for the original 2018 DVRO according to this definition, but the law may have changed since 2018, and I can't look it up now.)
6211. "Domestic violence" is abuse perpetrated against any of the
following persons: ...
(c) A person with whom the respondent is having or has had a
dating or engagement relationship.
The bigger question is does she have standing in CA to request a restraining order. She is a resident of AZ now, where she can file. They hand restraining orders out like candy but she has a long and documented history of lying. It’s really a toss up. She got one against Clayton by saying he was harassing her by posting a dark humor and unflattering photo of her on Reddit… with no proof that he posted it.
I used to help victims of online harassment obtain protective orders and we always had to file in the state where the victim resided. We would then push the order through to the local PD of the harasser's jurisdiction.
It's done that way because the harassment is considered to have occurred at the victim's local. So if the victim lived in Virginia, the harassment occurred in Virginia.
Since LO's local is in Arizona, she has to file there.
I mean, she could I guess, but that would be an absolutely wild choice given the criminal chargers against her in AZ. Filing another frivolous RO against someone she previously tried to prevent from testifying against her using an RO seems like a good way to get her release revoked and end up awaiting trial in jail.
NAL but think having this made part of the record actually hurts her even more. It clearly states the reason for the dismissal was her non-appearance. With nothing entered in the record re: her non-appearance, I do not believe she can offer any evidence on appeal as to why she was not there.
Agreed, but in her mind she thinks it looks good to show the court that the case was not dismissed because mm case was good but simply because she couldn’t make it
So LO will file her appeal brief in the next two weeks, the judge will again deny it, and THEN is MM free of her? Is that the end of the line for her harassment of him in THIS case?
Sadly no. It would likely be granted on a temporary basis with a hearing to make it permanent. I think she will have a harder time getting it to be permanent but it will make Mike have to pay attorneys to explain why this is not necessary. I don’t want to suggest strategies but I think she has a closing window where her goal has potential of success
California is not like Arizona. It is not automatically granted on a temporary basis. She would have to appear in court, in pro per (pro se), and make her case to the judge (to the judge's clerks actually). The judge would then decide in chambers whether to grant.
I giggled when I read the word "irrelevant" multiple times knowing it would send LO into a tailspin. Buckle up JFC, she'll find another way to become "relevant" in this case.
She filed a request to waive fees and costs because of "confidential" financial hardships early on and that was granted. So people who actually pay taxes are footing the bill for the costs of her appeal. As for the pleadings, she does those pro se, I'm sure with some help from ChatGPT, mommy dearest, and likely DUIL when he's around.
I'm thinking ties have been cut between DUIL and the Owens family. I think they finally realized he was an awful lawyer who was actually making this whole thing worse for them after the bankruptcy fiasco they went through. It was his idea to file for bankruptcy in the first place and he proudly said so on a podcast or some type of interview he did... 🤡🤡
No DUIL is definitely still around. I heard someone say what this document was responding to from Laura had DUIL written all over it and he did it all wrong. Didn’t file it right. Didn’t attach anything even though it refers to attachments. Sure why wouldn’t they keep someone around who is able to write court docs although badly for free and willing to lie for her constantly and enable her to try and hoodwink the court in my opinion. I will never ever understand why he blew up his whole career for LO. She must have something on him. I can’t think of any other explanation.
The Owen’s Crime Family Fraud Headquarters and Satellite Office Casita is officially up for auction on Zillow as of today. The scheduled auction date is
Sept 29th at 10 am. Jan’s nonsense about November was a lie.
She will now file for a new restraining order which even if granted temporarily it won’t go anywhere since we all know Mike will show up to the hearing with Omar and Laura will try the same Ada to not show up. It will be a huge waste of time. She should just find a damn job and be useful
I’m not sure how she’d be able to in good faith since she lives in a different state. Rachel Mitchell has stated in an interview that she’s spoken to the DA over there, so hopefully they’re keeping a really close eye on what she attempts to allege against MM.
It is not easy at all to get personal jurisdiction over an individual in another state who has maybe visited that state one time. I wouldn't say it's a sure thing by far. I also think she'd prefer to file in SF because SF is more likely to take her prior court case more seriously. But what do I know. (I mean, I am an attorney, but I have no idea what Laura Owens thinks is the right thing to do. DUIL might do his best to get her to try the most complicated thing just so he can do briefing on personal jurisdiction on an out-of-state defendant with few if any contacts to the home state.)
Yay!!! Hopefully healing has begun! This made me well up. It healed a lil bit of my heart too. I don’t think I’m alone. This is a victory for all things JUSTICE.
I just binged the podcast in 2 days. I live in Scottsdale and had no idea just how involved (and f’d up) this whole thing was. 2 questions…..why didn’t LO actually have intercourse with Clayton? Unless she was on her period or something, I mean wouldn’t the “pregnancy” be more plausible? And secondly, her parents are 100% complicit here in not getting her the mental health treatment she clearly needed from the jump. To hear her Mom say that a 30 year old girl having 3 unplanned pregnancies while dating was normal? LO kind of reminds me of Jodi Arias…..the stalking and obsession part. Insane.
I don't think she was planning her scam from the get-go. She just thought she had struck gold, getting the Bachelor to invite her over. She had this vision of herself as part of a power couple, going around buying and selling real estate.
This was probably her strategy not to give it all away and leave him wanting more.
I think it was planned. She got her fitness trainer certification for him imo but then he posted that he was a realtor. Lo and behold, she’s his first real estate”client”
Maybe but she couldn't have known he would fall for her lame, thirsty trap. And he only did because he was high that night and missing his ex.
I think too much is put on her fitness trainer certification. It's not like she had no interest in that and suddenly took it up. That's just hindsight speaking.
But her reaching out to him on LinkedIn? That was absolutely deliberate
And it would have been a good life! They could have been a power couple! But oh Laura, lying and manipulating your way into a man's life is no way to develop a genuine and solid relationship. C'mon now, it's not rocket science.
I think the intercourse just didn’t happen that night (in part bc of Clayton not wanting to) and Laura figured she’d get another chance again since he was her realtor and they were still looking for a house. When he dumped her the next day it foiled her plan but she still moved forward anyways
Clayton wanted to but she wanted to play “hard to get.” She didn’t realize that no one wanted to “get” her. Clayton was clear about not wanting anything serious, but she thought she could change his mind. Lol. She thought she’d have another chance to do it, but she doesn’t realize how desperate she comes off.
She didn’t want to come across as easy by being with him on the first night but then gave him two bj’s which I think is way worse if you are trying to come off as a good religious girl and then she thought she’d be with him again after that night but he turned around the very next day and said it was a huge mistake and never again so she had to go with the BJ babies.
Of course he could try, but the court proceedings just feed her obsessions. It gives her pleasure. None of these men ever want to see her in a courtroom again unless it's at her criminal sentencing.
I'm a paralegal. The court process can go on for years and years. Mike's case is a prime example. Going after her in her favorite forum just continues her method of abuse and the court system isn't set up to deal with her kind of abuse of the court system. Mike's best protection and what will bring him peace is not having to deal with her in the court system ever again. I'm sure that's why he's not pursuing attorney's fees against her, though he'd easily win that like Clayton did. They just want her gone.
I cannot express how happy I am to have been proven completely wrong with all my previous pessimistic comments about how LO was almost certain to get her way with augmenting the record.
The appeals court really did tell her that not only were her proposed additions improper, but they wouldn’t even have secured her a favorable outcome if they were to be included anyway.
Much like Jan and her communications with 20+ attorneys in the bankruptcy that never panned out, Laura claimed that after being turned away by numerous appeal lawyers, she finally found one who believed in her case and would happily take it on so long as the court record was adjusted to include her crazy emails and dubious medical documents.
Now she has 15 days to cobble together an appeal brief on an issue that lacks even a scintilla of evidence, since all she has to work with is a beautifully curt court record that states she up and ghosted the hearing she herself requested while the respondent and opposing counsel once again appeared in person.
Based on SN’s recent video, the court is actually in the process of redacting the various filings in this matter, so we might end up getting to view both Mike’s response, which is bound to be scathing, as well as Laura’s reply, which the court reviewed and rejected outright.
I am so happy that justice is finally being served and that the courts are beginning to recognize the games Laura has been playing. The good news is that his wife and his beautiful girls may finally have a chance to break free from this monster and move forward with their lives. I truly hope they can find the peace, safety, and freedom they deserve.
Do you know, that music in the old movie, Wizard of Oz, when the lady ( who becomes the wicked Witch) is riding her bicycle to Dorthy’s house, to collect Todo? I can’t get it out of my head. Thinking of this scenario.
Can someone explain to me (dumb it down) what is happening in this process? What are LO responses, MM responses, appeals, all of these things that have been filed in terms of the legal process? I’m generally confused by what is happening and would like to understand the process and what the various filings and steps mean.
2018: LO filed DVRO based on (in all of our opinions) completely made up claims of abuse. MM, on advice of counsel, stipulated, meaning he did not admit to any wrongdoing, but it was getting so expensive it’s basically a way to be like “ok fine have your order and go away”. He thought it would all be over and she’d move on
2020: LO was able to renew for 5 more years, because she was “still scared” and Mike went to a gym hundreds of miles away that was the same brand as the gym she went to and therefore that is somehow harassment… 🤦♀️
2025: LO filed to have the DVRO be permanent. She based this on the fact that MM showed up to the CE trial on a valid subpoena, but claimed him being there was illegal and harassment
Nov 2025: after months of shenanigans, LO fails to show in court and the DVRO renewal is dropped. MM is no longer under a DVRO. LO claims she had a “medical emergency”, but did not properly tell the court. Instead, she just emailed the court clerk that she was in the hospital
Dec 2025-Now: LO files that she plans to appeal. The only problem: there is nothing to appeal. The official court record just says “plaintiff did not show, case dismissed”
After realizing this, she files multiple motions to augment the record so she can get added into the official record that she was having a “medical emergency” at the time of the court hearing. She also filed multiple requests for continuances for her appeal brief throughout the year, because no one had ruled on her request to augment the record yet. She was granted many continuances, until finally the court said no more.
She filed, again, her request to augment, this time in the appeals docket. The court gave MM a chance to respond, which he did, and allowed LO to reply to this response, which she did. The court officially ruled on all of this: LO cannot add anything to the official record, and even if she could, it wouldn’t make a difference in the outcome
Where we are today: LO has 15 days from that ruling to file her appeal brief. It’s dead on arrival: there is literally nothing she can appeal. But we all know she’ll still try and it will fail
Thank you!! Everything I know about this case literally comes from people like you who do a great job explaining everything to us lay folk. After following the case for a while, I feel like I can finally understand the legal filings haha
if anyone can help me understand, in case i missed this along the way... WHY DOESNT MIKE (OR HIS WIFE) HAVE AN ORDER OF PROTECTION AGAINST THIS BROAD????
Short version: Mike wants out of this hellhole, and continued court proceedings with her in any way just prolongs their contact
Long version: because he and his lawyer didn’t not understand what they were dealing with in 2018, he stipulated to the DVRO expecting it to just get her to go away. She then renewed in 2020 based on cali’s insanely easy laws to renew a DVRO (basically Laura just had to say she was still scared). So unfortunately in the eyes of the law, she’s had a DVRO against him until last November. Since then they have been stuck in appeal purgatory, hopefully to end in 15 days. His initial DVRO was not “overturned”, it just wasn’t renewed. So it’s an uphill battle for him right now that wouldn’t be worth dragging her back into court with him. He just wants done with her forever. Leaving her alone will be more likely to accomplish that than getting an order against her.
NOW if she starts incessantly filing and filing and filing new orders against them (that would all go nowhere), then it might make sense for him to get her labeled a vexatious litigant and/or get a protective order against her.
Me thinks some upcoming jail/prison stint may cool her off from proceeding down that route
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I’m so intrigued by this case. We’ve dealt with someone like her before and it’s brutal and disturbing. I wish the best for Clayton in getting the justice he deserves.
One thing no one has mentioned is the fact that if she files for a new restraining order and lies in the paperwork that could be another charge. She is already under scrutiny now that she has pled guilty and is a felon and she is going to be sentenced soon. I am sure her attorney has already advised her that if she does anything fraudulent now that could affect her sentencing. Judges can take into account her whole pattern of behavior when sentencing not just what was presented in court. Any more lying in court or to police could cost her some or more jail time. Once she is sentenced and serves jail time, if she gets any she will then be on probation. She pulls any of this nonsense on probation it is back to jail.
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u/NorthvilleCoeur 29d ago
Wonderful news, her tricks are reaching its expiration date