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2024.01.04 Motion for Assignment Order Re Coordination
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2024.01.04
Excerpt: ...tion 404 and rule 3.524, to determine if the two matters are complex and, if so, whether coordination is appropriate. The operative complaint in the first case filed, Mitchell v. Ray A. Morgan Company, LLC, et al., VCU292052 (the "Mitchell Case"), filed November 17, 2021, contained both class acton and PAGA claims and was initially filed in Los Angeles County and designated complex by the Los Angeles Superior Court. The parties in this matter sti...
2024.01.04 Demurrer, Motion to Strike 992
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2024.01.04
Excerpt: ...") was purchased from GM's authorized dealer. (Third Amended Complaint ("TAC") Plaintiff further alleges the Subject Vehicle was manufactured with a defective transmission. (TAC 923.) "GM knew since prior to Plaintiff purchasing the Subject Vehicle, that the 2021 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 vehicles equipped with the same transmission are defective, contained one or more defect(s) to the transmission which may result in hesitation on acceleration, l...
2023.12.28 Motion for Trial Preference 701
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.12.28
Excerpt: ...for trial preference under Code of Civil Procedure section 36 and initially sought to have trial set in six months from this hearing. No opposition has been filed to this motion. The reply now indicates the preferred trial date is in August 2024. Authority and Analysis Code of Civil Procedure section 36(b) specifically provides: "A civil achon to recover damages for wrongful death or personal injury shall be entitled to preference upon the motion...
2023.12.28 Demurrer 817
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.12.28
Excerpt: ...ally, no statement of compliance with Tort Claims Act as to the timely presentation of this presumed tort claim has been stated on the form complaint utilized. Defendant has demurred to the complaint on these grounds. Authority and Analysis The purpose of a demurrer is to test whether a complaint "states facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action upon which relief may be based." (Young v. Gannon (2002) 97 Cal.App.4th 209, 220. To state a ca...
2023.12.14 Motion for Summary Judgment 240
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.12.14
Excerpt: ...(IJMF No. 2.) Plaintiff alleges Defendant breached the standard of care in (1) his treatment of Plaintiff by refusing to admit her when she presented to the emergency department; (2) in his treatment of her when she was admitted; (3) by refusing to care for her after she was admitted; and (4) when he discharged her after concluding treatment. (IJMF No. 3.) Defendant submits that his expert, Scott P. Serden, M.D, based on his knowledge, education,...
2023.12.12 Special Motion to Strike 093
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.12.12
Excerpt: ... involve litigation of custody and visitation involving their two minor children. The court takes judicial notice that there has been substantial litigation activity in the family law case. Jonda and Jennifer Salmon were once long-time friends. Now they are not. Jennifer Salmon and Vernon Avila are now friends. On April 21, 2023, Jonda wentto Vernon's home and Jennifer was there. Jonda maintains that Vernon had refused to take their children to s...
2023.12.07 Motion for Final Approval of Class Action and PAGA Settlement 498
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.12.07
Excerpt: ...ent purposes came on for hearing on December 7, 2023. The Court finds and rules as follows: On November 13, 2023, the settlement administrator IYLM Group, through its Case Manager, filed a declaration detailing the following events. On June 30, 2023, the administrator received a mailing list of 157 potential class members from Defendant's counsel with names, contact information, social security numbers and relevant employment information. On Augu...
2023.12.07 Demurrer, Motion to Strike Punitive Damages 930
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.12.07
Excerpt: ... located at 1114 Martin Luther King Jr Ave., Unit 1114B, Tulare, California 93274 ("Subject Property") resulting in a bed bug infestation. Plaintiffs allege eight causes of action, including, relevant here, the seventh cause of action for violation of Business and Professions Code 17200 and for punitive damages. The complaint alleges that around December 2022, Plaintiffs rented and moved into the Subject Property and immediately notified Defendan...
2023.11.30 Motion for Summary Judgment 240
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.11.30
Excerpt: ...rs employees and servants, including the nursing staff and technicians; and (2) vicarious liability forthe negligence of the physicians who provided care to Plaintiff at Sierra View Medical Center. Plaintiff alleges medical malpractice as to the December 5, 2021 failure to remove ectopic pregnancy and follow up care and on December 7, 2021 as to the initial refusal to admit Plaintiff to the emergency room and breach of standard of care when Plain...
2023.11.30 Motion for Approval of Representative PAGA Settlement 878
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.11.30
Excerpt: ...he Court ordered Plaintiff's individual PAGA claims to arbitration and stayed this matter as to Plaintiff's representative PAGA claims. The parties settled Plaintiff's individual PAGA claims in a separate settlement not contingent upon this action. This settlement is to Plaintiff's representative PAGA claims and, if approved, will resolve all claims in this lawsuit. 1. Sufficiency of Amount of Settlement (Proposed Net Distribution: $135,666.67) T...
2023.11.30 Demurrer, Motion to Strike 642
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.11.30
Excerpt: ...rike punitive damages under the prayer related to medical malpractice without leave to amend; to find the availability of attorneys' fees as to fraud moot by the ruling on the demurrer providing leave to amend; to grant the motion to strike as to "attorney's fees as authorized by law" without leave to amend as to "all causes of action." (1) Demurrer Plaintiff, alleges moving Defendants Redwood Family Dentistry and Jasjeet S. Malli, D.D.S. were pr...
2023.11.22 Motion for New Trial 375
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.11.22
Excerpt: ...dgment nunc pro tunc for costs in favor of Defendant in the amount of $103,980. On September 11, 2023, the judgment entered August 29, 2023, was served on Plaintiff. On September 26, 2023, Plaintiff filed the notice of intent for new trial. On October 6, 2023, Plaintiff filed the motion for new trial. Though the grounds on which this motion is made are more thoroughly discussed below, Plaintiff asserts generally that the Court's conduct, comments...
2023.11.16 Motion to Compel Arbitration 123
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.11.16
Excerpt: ... against Defendants Flores Ag Services, Inc. and S.C. Critchley Inc. Defendant Flores seeks to compel arbitration of Plaintiff, to enforce a class action waiver and to stay the representative PAGA claims pending the completion of arbitration. Defendant Critchley joins in this motion. Defendant, in their reply brief, has provided a version of the arbitration agreement at issue in English for the Court to review and analyze. Facts as to Agreement t...
2023.11.09 Motion for Summary Judgment 320
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.11.09
Excerpt: ...World Food & Ag., Inc. and seeks to impose liability against individual defendants Brian Blain, Brody Blain, and Barrett Blain (the Blains) on an alter-ego/veil-piercing theory. The Blains move for summary judgment, or, alternatively, summary adjudication of various matters. In effect, the Blains challenge the City's alter-ego/veil-piercing theory of liability, as it is only by way of that theory that the City's complaint frames any issue of liab...
2023.11.09 Demurrer, Motion to Expunge Lis Pendens 822
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.11.09
Excerpt: ...nded complaint; (2) To contnue the motion to expunge based on the demurrer ruling. On February 12, 2007, Plaintiffs executed a promissory note reflecting a loan they obtained from Mortgage Investment Leding Associates, Inc./MERS for $25,500.00 ("Loan"). (Request for Judicial Notce ("RJN"), Exhibit A.) The Loan was secured by a second position junior Deed of Trust ("DOT") encumbering the real property commonly known as 1915 Payan Avenue, Dinuba, C...
2023.11.02 Motion for Summary Judgment 414
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.11.02
Excerpt: ... filed this complaint alleging a single cause of action against Defendant for premises liability based on a dangerous condition. (UMF No. 3.) Defendant characterizes Plaintiff's Complaint as alleging that Defendant "had failed to barricade the area and/or warn of the dangerous condition, rendering said premises dangerous and resulting in serious bodily injury.„." (UMF No. 4.) Plaintiff disputes this characterization and adds that his complaint ...
2023.11.02 Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings 258
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.11.02
Excerpt: ...to Defendant at Defendant's request as to a Home Depot Credit Card containing the last four digits 1281. Plaintiff alleged damages in the amount of $6,330.22. Defendant answered the complaint on June 29, 2023, stating "l know I owe the money..." On August 9, 2023, Plaintiff filed this motion for judgment on the pleadings on the basis that Defendant's answer did not deny that the money was owed to Plaintiff. Notice of this motion as mailed to the ...
2023.11.02 Demurrer 358
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.11.02
Excerpt: ...en in Tulare County, including Plaintiff." (Complaint 2, 9.) Plaintiff alleges that while she was in foster care under the custody, care, and control of "DEFENDANTS" in approximately 1981, when Plaintiff was approximately thirteen (13) years old, Plaintiff was sexually abused and assaulted by her Foster Father, in whose home she was placed. (Complaint 23, 24.) Plaintiff alleges that she reported this abuse to a social worker and that no action wa...
2023.10.19 Motion to Compel Arbitration, Demurrer 218
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.10.19
Excerpt: ...those agreements. In September 2020, Defendants Donahue Schriber Realty Group, L.P. and Donahue Schriber Asset Management Corporation (collectively "Donahue Schrieber") as seller, entered into a purchase and sale agreement and joint escrow instructions (the "PSA") with Salim Development Group, as buyer, fora parcel of land in a development in the City of Visalia. (FAC '18.) The PSA was amended a number of times, including a third amendment where ...
2023.10.19 Motion for Summary Judgment 128
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.10.19
Excerpt: ... of action against the City is for dangerous condition of public property and failure to maintain public property as to non-functioning pedestrian cross-walk flashing beacons designed to alert others of the presence of pedestrians in the cross-walk. Material Facts The following facts are undisputed by Plaintiff Carranza, unless otherwise indicated. On July 20,201B, at approximately 6:10 a.m., Decedent was struck and killed by a vehicle while oper...
2023.10.19 Motion for Preliminary Approval of Class Action and PAGA Settlement 386
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.10.19
Excerpt: ...age payout of $121.66. The Class Members consist of: All current and former non-exempt employees of Agustin Ceballos Baca dba A&L Harvesting who performed work for Porterville Citrus, Inc. in California at any tme from December 2, 2018 through October 15, 2023. Plaintiff primarily alleged the following violations: (1) meal period violations premised on failure to provide timely duty-free 30 minute first meal periods; (2) rest period violations pr...
2023.10.19 Motion for Preliminary Approval 988
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.10.19
Excerpt: ...d a declaration and supplemental briefing addressing these issues. Attorneys' Fees and Costs Attorneys' fees of 33% of the gross settlement fund of $445,130 or $148,375.57 and costs not to exceed $25,000 are sought by Plaintiff's counsel. Counsel has utilized the percentage of common fund methodology as well as provided adequate lodestar information to evaluate the reasonableness of the fee request. Here, Counsel indicates that the firm has spent...
2023.10.12 Special Motion to Strike 825
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.10.12
Excerpt: ... handle the transactions. Plaintiffs allege they "developed valuable contractual and other business and economic relationships with Airbnb and VRBO that provide[] [them] with the probability of future economic benefit." Plaintiffs allege defendant has tortiously interfered with these relationships in various ways. Defendant moves to strike the complaint under Cuie of Civil Procedure section 425.16, California's anti- SLAPP statute. The ant-SLAPP ...
2023.10.12 Motion to Stay or Consolidate, for Preliminary Injunction 198
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.10.12
Excerpt: ...ese landlords as well as other defendants alleged to be in a "joint venture," "partnership" or "common enterprise" with them. In the now second amended complaint, CIDF states various claims, the principal contentions of which are that the defendants failed to fix dairy equipment and fixtures, failed to pay for other miscellaneous items to be fixed, and failed to provide certain accommodations for CIDF's dairy operations, including water and waste...
2023.10.12 Motion for Extension of Time to Respond to Complaint 516
Location: Tulare
Judge: Mathias, David D
Hearing Date: 2023.10.12
Excerpt: ... Doe 1 on March 15, 2023. On August 28, 2023, Doe 1 filed a fee waiver request and this motion for an extension of time. The motion indicates Doe 1 is incarcerated and was uncertain if his fee waiver would be accepted prior to filing a responsive pleading in this case. The fee waiver request was granted August 28, 2023. Plaintiff did not seek entry of default until September 7, 2023. Authority and Analysis The Court will grant Doe I's request for...

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