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2019.10.23 Application for Right to Attach Order, for Issuance of Writ of Attachment 598
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.23
Excerpt: ...) the claim upon which the attachment is based is one upon which an attachment may be issued, (2) Petitioner has established the probable validity of her claim (see Code Civ. Proc. § 481.190, “more probable than not…”), (3) the attachment is not sought for a purpose other than the recovery on the claim upon which the attachment is based, and (4) the amount to be secured is greater than zero. Code Civ. Proc. § 483.090(a). Based on the alle...
2019.10.23 Motion to Quash Service of Summons and Complaint 541
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.23
Excerpt: ... CONTINUED to January 17, 2020 at 9 a.m. in the Law & Motion Department to allow Plaintiff time to conduct jurisdictional discovery. Defendants' alternative Motion to Dismiss on grounds of inconvenient forum (forum non conveniens) is DENIED, for the reasons stated below. Personal jurisdiction is determined by evidence, not allegations Without belaboring the issue, the Court notes that when a Defendant challenges the Court's personal jurisdiction ...
2019.10.22 Motion for Sanctions 107
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.22
Excerpt: ...tive ruling, Plaintiffs served a “partial joint response” to Defendants' requests for production. In conjunction with that response, Plaintiffs produced approximately 600 pages of documents. Subsequent to the filing of this motion, Plaintiffs produced approximately 1900 electronic files. In this motion, Defendants emphasize that Plaintiff's production was deficient. According to Defendants, “[Plaintiffs] have disobeyed [the court's July 23]...
2019.10.21 Motion to Strike or Tax Costs 540
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.21
Excerpt: ...b)‐16(d) is GRANTED. These costs are barred by the oral settlement agreement between the parties entered into on April 24, 2018. The transcript of the April 24, 2018 hearing shows that Defendant's counsel, Matthew James, stated on the record: …And just so I'm absolutely in an abundance of caution, that the parties are agreeing to incur their own attorney's fees and costs relating to this litigation except as provided for by Mr. Macias [Plaint...
2019.10.18 Motion to Compel Arbitration 683
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.18
Excerpt: ...aining broadly‐worded arbitration clauses. 8‐16‐19 Maley Decl., Ex. 2 at § 11, Ex. 6. Morales does not appear to dispute that the arbitration clause in one or both of the agreements would apply to her asserted claims against Genesys. However, she contends the agreements are unconscionable and/or voidable under Labor Code § 925, and thus should not be enforced. Because unconscionability is a contract defense, the party asserting the defens...
2019.10.18 Motion for Summary Judgment, Adjudication 711
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.18
Excerpt: ... no merit. CCP §437c(p)(2). The complaint asserts causes of action for products' liability based on defective design, defective manufacturing and failure to warn, negligence based on design and manufacturing defects and failure to warn, loss of consortium and negligent infliction of emotional distress. The undisputed material facts and supporting evidence establish the following: Defendant was not involved with the installation of its product. U...
2019.10.18 Motion to Stay or Dismiss 683
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.18
Excerpt: ...nt. The parties to this case are all currently involved in another pending case—an earlier‐filed action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, captioned Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. v. Talkdesk, Inc. et. al., Case No. 1:19‐CV‐00695‐TWPDML. In the Indiana case, parties Talkdesk, Morales, Strahan, Hertel, and Manno, who are all Plaintiffs in this case and Defendants in the Indiana case, ...
2019.10.15 Motion for Summary Judgment 361
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.15
Excerpt: .... I. Issue One – First Cause of Action (Declaratory Relief) The Stadler‐Freeman deed reserved a right of way that is 50‐feet wide, designated for “road purposes and for public utilities.” The reservation does not indicate any specific dimensions for road purposes or for utilities. Certain defendants received easements over the 50‐foot right of way, but Defendants' deeds do not specify any width of their respective easements. Therefore...
2019.10.15 Motion to Strike Punitive Damages 752
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.15
Excerpt: ...aint (SAC) is GRANTED. Code Civ. Proc. §§ 435‐437; Civ. Code § 3294. As a general rule, punitive damages are disfavored and are awarded “with the greatest caution” and only in the “clearest of cases.” Beck v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. (1976) 54 Cal.App.3d 347. Mere negligence, even gross negligence, is not sufficient. Ebaugh v. Rabkin (1972) 22 Cal.App.3d 891, 894. The law requires that a plaintiff seeking punitive damages prove...
2019.10.11 Motion for Leave to File Amended Complaint 008
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.11
Excerpt: ...pposition brief, filed 9‐30‐19. Defense counsel is reminded to comply with the service requirements set forth in Code Civ. Proc. § 1005(b)‐(c) (Opp. briefs must be served by means of next‐day delivery). Plaintiff seeks leave to file a FAC adding a new Defendant (Fidelity National Title Co., or FNTC) and several new causes of action, all based on the alleged non‐disclosure of an additional easement encumbering the property (the “1954 ...
2019.10.11 Motion for Summary Adjudication 724
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.11
Excerpt: ...ute of limitations defense bars this Cause of Action as a matter of law. Additionally, triable issues of material fact exist pursuant to Code of Civ. Proc. Section 437c as to the substantial nature of alleged stream diversions, including with regard to SSUMF numbers 2, 4, 6, 9, 15, and 16. Plaintiffs' dispute of these facts are supported by the depositions of Deleon, Leicester, Lt. Ober and Randi Adair and the declaration of Crystal Chau. As to t...
2019.10.11 Motion to Compel Further Responses 724
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.11
Excerpt: ...other state agencies. Those agencies are not a party to this action. As a result, Defendants must seek the documents through a third‐party subpoena pursuant to People ex rel. Lockyer v. Superior Court, 122 Cal. App. 4th 1060, 1078–80 (2004). Defendants have provided no argument or discussion relating to Lockyer. Defendants contend that, in accordance with CCP § 2031.230, the People are required to indicate whether a diligent inquiry has been...
2019.10.10 Motion to Seal Records 920
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.10
Excerpt: ...t the privacy interest. Absent sealing, the private information would be publicly available. If the tentative ruling is uncontested, it shall become the order of the Court, pursuant to Rule 3.1308(a)(1), adopted by Local Rule 3.10, effective immediately, and no formal order pursuant to Rule 3.1312 or any other notice is required as the tentative ruling affords sufficient notice to the parties. ...
2019.10.9 Motion to Lift Stay 296
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.10.9
Excerpt: ...tani et. al.'s express request. See 8‐16‐19 Minute Order. Dattani et. al. has repeatedly represented that this civil case should follow the criminal case. See 8‐22‐19 Wood Decl., ¶6 (“In Dec. 26, 2018 Defendants moved to continue trial, in accord with Defendants understanding that everyone agrees the criminal matter must proceed before the civil matters.”). The criminal case has not yet resolved. Further, Dattani et. al. has not iden...
2019.3.25 Motion for Sanctions 858
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.3.25
Excerpt: ...o the settlement, or (2) had no intention of honoring the terms of the settlement, or (3) allowed the motion to be filed because it intended to cause a delay of the trial or delay performance on the settlement causing additional damage to Elevation.” [MPA, p.3] Elevation, however, has failed to set forth sufficient facts to establish that Terrace acted for the sole purpose of harassment or delay. Counsel for Terrace asserts in his declaration t...
2019.3.25 Motion for Leave to Amend 407
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.3.25
Excerpt: ...ing KW's Demurrer to the fraud cause of action in Plaintiffs' original Complaint, on grounds Plaintiffs had alleged no underlying facts supporting their conclusory allegation that KW ratified/authorized Defendant Yu's conduct (Civ. Code § 2339), and had alleged no facts supporting employer liability under the doctrine of respondeat superior. The 12‐6‐18 Order granted Plaintiffs leave to amend to allege, if they could, a fraud claim against K...
2019.3.22 Motion for Summary Adjudication 828
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.3.22
Excerpt: ... to Evidence Code Sections 403, 702, 1401, and 1402, and California Rules of Court Rule 3.1110(g). The assertion that the March 17, 2015 agreement, including both the English translation and the Chinese language version, was prepared by SUE is not supported by the evidence currently before the court. The remainder of Defendant's evidentiary objections are OVERRULED. Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Adjudication is DENIED pursuant to Code of Civ. Pr...
2019.3.22 Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings 418
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.3.22
Excerpt: ...1) Defendant entered into an account with Bank of America, (2) Defendant authorized all transactions on the account, (3) the present balance is $5,005.59, and (4) Defendant's last payment on the account was on April 16, 2017. These admissions are sufficient to establish amount of a debt, but not sufficient to entitle Plaintiff to judgment on the pleadings. B. The Motion Fails to Dispose of Any Cause of Action. The complaint alleges three common c...
2019.3.21 Motion to Compel Further Responses 203
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.3.21
Excerpt: ...1, is ruled on as follows: The motion to Request nos. 12‐16 is GRANTED. The County establishes good cause for production of these documents. (See C.C.P. § 2031.310(b)(1).) Once good cause is shown, the burden shifts to the responding party to justify the objection. (Kirkland v. Sup. Ct. (2002) 95 Cal.app.4th 92, 98.) Here, Jane Doe #1 failed to oppose this motion, and therefore has not justified her objections. The motion to Request no. 17 is ...
2019.3.20 Motion for Leave to File Complaint 483
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.3.20
Excerpt: ...detect the wrongful acts of Clark. A. The Proposed Cross‐Complaint Appears to State a Cause of Action. Generally, whether a pleading states a cause of action should be decided by demurrer, not on a motion for leave to file the pleading. For purposes of this motion only, the Court declines to apply the case of Jaffe v. Huxley Architecture (1988) 200 Cal.App.3d 1188. The same court that decided Jaffe later limited that case to its facts. (See Pla...
2019.3.19 Motion for Assignment Order 653
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.3.19
Excerpt: ...sufficient evidence to establish that Judgment Debtor has the right to any payment from Momentum Auto Group, Inc. and Fairfield CJD, LP. The declaration of Plaintiff's account manager, Pliny Jones, states that declarant is informed and believes that Defendant is entitled to receive income from these entities as an independent contractor based on an internet search performed. However, declarant fails to set forth any facts to support how declarant...
2019.3.19 Petition to Compel Binding Contract Arbitration 149
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2019.3.19
Excerpt: ...ion to Compel Arbitration and Stay Action is DENIED. Plaintiff waived his right to compel arbitration. Plaintiff complied with Code of Civil Procedure section 1281.5 by alleging that he does not waive the right to arbitrate and intends to move, within 30 days after serving the Complaint, to compel arbitration. (Code of Civ. Proc. Sect. 1281.5, subd. (a); see Complaint at 12:13‐20.) Section 1281.5 requires that “within 30 days” after serving...
2018.8.3 Motion for Attorney Fees 246
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.8.3
Excerpt: ...performed by the Knight Law Firm (“Knight firm”), and $27,775.00 for work performed by Hackler Daghighian Martino & Novak, P.C. (“HDMN”). In opposition, Defendants FCA US LLC and KTP Cars, Inc. (“Defendants”) object to both the hourly rates and the claimed time spent by the attorneys. Plaintiff provided additional declarations at the prior hearing, and the court continued the motion to consider this evidence and to give Defendants an ...
2018.8.3 Demurrer 786
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.8.3
Excerpt: ...because all asserted claims hinge on a 2006 trust deed signed only by decedent, Plaintiff was required to file the lawsuit within one year of decedent's 2014 death, and thus all claims are now time‐barred. Citing Probate Code § 13550, 13551, and 13554; Code Civ. Proc. § 366.2. The merits of this defense cannot be resolved on Demurrer. A demurrer lies where the dates alleged in the complaint show clearly and affirmatively that the action is ba...
2018.8.3 Motion for Protective Order 546
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.8.3
Excerpt: ...specific requirements of Code Civ. Proc. § 2031.030, which includes a designation of the land or property to be inspected, tested or sampled by “specifically describing each individual item or by reasonably particularizing each category of item”; and a specification of “any inspection, copying, testing, sampling, or related activity that is being demanded, as well as the manner in which that activity will be performed, and whether that act...
2018.8.3 Motion to Compel 700
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.8.3
Excerpt: ...31.320, subd. (a).) In response to Categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7, Plaintiff responded that it would produce certain documents, but the motion offers no evidence that Plaintiff has refused to actually produce them. The motion states, “June 20 came and went with no production or any response from plaintiff's counsel. (Nelson Decl. ¶ 10.)” (Moving P&A at 4:22‐23.) Paragraph 10 to the Nelson Declaration states merely that Attorney Nelson did...
2018.8.2 Motion to Strike 778
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.8.2
Excerpt: ...fraud. Further, it does not allege facts that can reasonably support a finding of malice or oppression, as defined by Civ. Code § 3294. The allegations lump defendants together, without specifying what acts/conduct Fidelity allegedly engaged in that constitutes fraud, oppression, and/or malice. Further, the allegations of wrongdoing appear directed at the lender and/or servicer of the loan. There is no allegation Fidelity was the lender or servi...
2018.8.2 Motion to Compel Arbitration 921
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.8.2
Excerpt: ...is for binding arbitration. When arbitration is pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 1280 et seq., the resulting arbitration award is, in substance, binding. Judicial arbitration is nonbinding; a party dissatisfied with the award may reject the award by requesting trial de novo. In contrast, when arbitration is under Section 1280 et seq., such as what the present motion seeks, the arbitration award may be attacked only on limited grounds. ...
2018.8.2 Demurrer 778
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.8.2
Excerpt: ...is expected to explain, at the 8‐2‐17 hearing, why granting leave to amend as to Fidelity would not be futile. First, as to all asserted claims, the FAC is uncertain by failing to specifically identify what conduct defendant Fidelity, as distinct from the other named defendants, purportedly engaged in. Code Civ. Proc. Sect. 430.10(f); Moore v. Regents of Univ. of Cal. (1990) 51 Cal.3d 120, 125. As set forth in Code Civ. Proc. Sect. 425.10(a),...
2018.8.2 Demurrer 769
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.8.2
Excerpt: ... a claim or issue litigated in the prior proceeding; (2) the prior proceeding resulted in a final judgment on the merits; and (3) the party against whom the doctrine is being asserted was a party or in privity with a party to the prior proceeding. Tobin v. Nationstar Mortgage, Inc. (2016) 2016 WL 1948786, at *5 (citing Boeken v. Phillip Morris USA, Inc. (2010) 48 Cal. 4th 788, 797. Plaintiff filed a prior action, San Mateo County Superior Court C...
2018.8.1 Demurrer 953
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.8.1
Excerpt: ...0, 2018, no declaration had been filed. Consequently, the demurrer is stricken. If the tentative ruling is uncontested, it shall become the order of the Court, pursuant to Rule 3.1308(a)(1), adopted by Local Rule 3.10, effective immediately, and no formal order pursuant to Rule 3.1312 or any other notice is required as the tentative ruling affords sufficient notice to the parties. ...
2018.8.1 OSC Re Contempt 572
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.8.1
Excerpt: ...�Application”), or whether Mr. Carroll intended for this hearing to be treated as the Order to Show Cause re: Contempt hearing. On the same day Mr. Carroll filed the Application, he also filed an Order to Show Cause re: Contempt purporting to give Ms. Carter notice of this hearing as a contempt hearing. No Order to Show Cause re: Contempt was ever signed by the court. Thus, to the extent that Mr. Carroll intended this hearing as a contempt hear...
2018.8.1 Motion to Vacate 362
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.8.1
Excerpt: ...pursuant to Rule 3.1312 or any other notice is required as the tentative ruling affords sufficient notice to the parties. ...
2018.7.31 Motion to Strike 647
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.31
Excerpt: ...d the omission, but expressly directed Defendant BSI, “In the future, Defendant must comply with the meet and confer requirement prior to filing a motion to strike. (See Code of Civ. Proc. 435.5.)” (Minute Order, April 11, 2018 (last paragraph). Instead of meeting and conferring in person or by telephone, Defendant BSI merely sent a letter. The supporting declaration does not indicate any attempt to meet in person or by phone, as specified by...
2018.7.31 Motion to Compel 514
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.31
Excerpt: ...ndants concede they have no breach of fiduciary duty claim against Plaintiff and do not intend to assert one, appears outside the scope of permissible discovery as to this responding party. Code Civ. Proc. § 2017.010. Plaintiff's request for monetary sanctions is DENIED. If the tentative ruling is uncontested, it shall become the order of the Court, pursuant to Rule 3.1308(a)(1), adopted by Local Rule 3.10, effective immediately, and no formal o...
2018.7.31 Motion to Compel Further Responses 433
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.31
Excerpt: ...is interrogatory, limited to prior incidents (dating back three years before Plaintiff's alleged incident) in the women's department of the Macy's in question. “PREMISES” is defined in the interrogatories to mean the entire Macy's store, which is overbroad given that the alleged incident occurred in the women's department, which itself is sizeable. Defendant's relevance argument lacks merit. Evid. Code § 210 (broadly defining relevant eviden...
2018.7.31 Motion to Lift Stay 882
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.31
Excerpt: ...the order to arbitration or until such earlier time as the court specifies. (C.C.P. sec. 1281.4.) The court previously ordered that the parties submit Plaintiff's non‐PAGA claims to arbitration after Defendant Binary Capital Management, LLC (“Binary”) moved to compel arbitration. (See Baker Decl., Exhs. 2, 3.) Plaintiff then proceeded to pay AAA's arbitration filing fee. (Baker Decl., paras. 5, 6, and Exhs. 5, 6.) Binary apparently became i...
2018.7.30 Demurrer 844
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.30
Excerpt: ...ers, Inv. v. Municipal Court (1978) 21 Cal.3d 724. Therefore, on the court's own motion, the complaint is stricken with 30 days' leave to file an amended pleading if plaintiff retains an attorney. The demurrer is moot. If the tentative ruling is uncontested, it shall become the order of the Court, pursuant to Rule 3.1308(a)(1), adopted by Local Rule 3.10, effective immediately, and no formal order pursuant to Rule 3.1312 or any other notice is re...
2018.7.30 Motion to Compel 494
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.30
Excerpt: ...) Defendant's Motion to Compel Documents Responsive to Defendant's requests for production of documents (set one and two), is GRANTED. Plaintiff is to produce all responsive documents, to the extent any exist, as to these requests. Alternatively, as Defendant proposed, Plaintiff may instead provide a signed verification that the documents provided by CrossDefendant Nordeman are the only documents that exist responsive to Defendant's requests. (3)...
2018.7.27 Motion to Compel 322
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.27
Excerpt: ...t the scope of these requests to information pertaining to conduct similar to the allegations in Plaintiff's Complaint. Plaintiff also agreed to limit the timeframe from January 1, 2010 to the present. (Decl. Loh ¶ 7, Exhibit 3.)  GRANTED as to Request for Production (Set One), Request No. 18 and Request for Production (Set Two), Request No. 57. Defendant iPASS, INC. is ordered to serve full and complete, verified responses to the foregoing d...
2018.7.27 Motion to Strike 450
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.27
Excerpt: ...August 31, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. in the Law and Motion Department so that the parties may meet and confer. Defendant is required to file, no later than 7 days prior to the new hearing date, a code‐compliant declaration stating either (1) the parties have met and conferred in person or by telephone and (a) the parties have resolved the objections raised in the motion, which shall be taken off calendar or (b) the parties did not reach an agreement re...
2018.7.27 Motion for Protective Order 530
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.27
Excerpt: ...version for the Court's signature. Defendant correctly notes that cases should normally be prosecuted under the parties' true names. Code Civ. Proc. § 367. However, this rule is not absolute. Courts have authority to permit the use of pseudonyms in various circumstances, such as where doing so is necessary to protect against harassment, injury, embarrassment, and social stigmatization. See, e.g., Does I thru XXIII v. Advanced Textile Corp. (9th ...
2018.7.9 Demurrer 640
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.9
Excerpt: ...Environmental Services, Inc., Langan Engineering Environmental Surveying and Landscape Architecture DPC dba Langan Engineering Environmental Surveying and Landscape Architecture, Treadwell & Rollo, Inc. and T&R Consolidated, Inc. (collectively “Defendants”) to the First Amended Complaint of Plaintiff KB Home South Bay, Inc. (“Plaintiff”) is ruled on as follows: Demurrer to the Fourteenth Cause of Action for Successor‐in‐Interest Corpo...
2018.7.9 Motion for Sanctions 275
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.9
Excerpt: ...fs to file the motion. (Minutes, January 10, 2018.) No trial date was pending, and Plaintiffs' motion was for the purpose of setting a trial date. Therefore, the motion also was not filed for the purpose of delay. The grounds for the motion to reset trial date were not asserted in bad faith or frivolously. At the time of the motion, this case had not been included in the coordinated action, and no trial date was set in this Court. Presently, the ...
2018.7.9 Motion to Compel Further Responses, for Sanctions 203
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.9
Excerpt: ...��76, 82, 93‐94, 99, 105‐106, 111‐112, 117‐118, 129‐130, 135, 147‐148 and for sanctions is GRANTED‐IN‐PART and DENIED‐IN‐PART. The 27 interrogatories at issue are sufficiently relevant to the asserted claims. Although not the primary basis of its Opposition papers, the County argues the 27 disputed interrogatories here have only marginal relevance to “whether Mr. Sedillo was having improper relationships with his clients.”...
2018.7.9 Motion to Vacate Dismissal, to Enter Judgment 272
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.9
Excerpt: ... that dismissal should be vacated under Code of Civil Procedure section 473. (See Declaration of Dubowski, para. 11.) Therefore, the ground for this motion is that dismissal was entered by “mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.” (Code of Civ. Proc. §473, subd. (b).) The motion shows no “mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.” The parties stipulated in writing to entry of dismissal, and the Court entered t...
2018.7.6 Motion for Leave to File Complaint 802
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.6
Excerpt: ...such as oversight, inadvertence, neglect, mistake or other cause, are insufficient grounds to deny the motion unless accompanied by bad faith.” (Silver Organizations Ltd. v. Frank (1990) 217 Cal. App. 3d 94, 99 [permitting crosscomplaint on “eve of trial”].) The provision for allowing of compulsory cross‐complaints “shall be liberally construed to avoid forfeiture of causes of action.” (CCP § 426.50.) A “strong showing of bad faith...
2018.7.6 Motion for Summary Judgment, Adjudication 369
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.6
Excerpt: ...e time for service is increased by “two court days.” (Code of Civ. Proc. § 437c, subd. (a)(2).) The 75th calendar day before the July 6, 2018 hearing date was April 22, 2018, a Sunday. Adding “two court days” extends the service deadline to Thursday, April 19, 2018. Defendant served this motion on Friday, April 20, 2018, one day too late. “The statutory language regarding minimum notice is mandatory, not directive.” (Urshan v. Musici...
2018.7.5 Motion for Order 080
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.5
Excerpt: ...onic service. If the tentative ruling is uncontested, it shall become the order of the Court, pursuant to Rule 3.1308(a)(1), adopted by Local Rule 3.10, effective immediately, and no formal order pursuant to Rule 3.1312 or any other notice is required as the tentative ruling affords sufficient notice to the parties. ...
2018.7.5 Motion to Seal 600
Location: San Mateo
Judge: Greenberg, Susan
Hearing Date: 2018.7.5
Excerpt: ...o less restrictive means to protect the privacy interest. Absent sealing, the private information would be publicly available. If the tentative ruling is uncontested, it shall become the order of the Court, pursuant to Rule 3.1308(a)(1), adopted by Local Rule 3.10, effective immediately, and no formal order pursuant to Rule 3.1312 or any other notice is required as the tentative ruling affords sufficient notice to the parties. ...

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