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2020.08.27 Demurrer 912
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.08.27
Excerpt: ...c Safety Officer Procedural Bill of Rights (the “POBRA”) within Plaintiffs LISA MCDOWELL (“MCDOWELL”) and NATALIE RAFFERTY's (“RAFFERTY”) complaint. Legal Standard. “The function of a demurrer is to test the sufficiency of the complaint as a matter of law.” (Holiday Matinee, Inc. v. Rambus, Inc. (2004) 118 Cal.App.4th 1413, 1420.) A complaint is sufficient if it alleges ultimate rather than evidentiary facts, but the plaintiff mus...
2020.08.27 Anti-SLAPP Motion 912
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.08.27
Excerpt: ...p.5th 768, 780 (Argentieri).) First the defendant must make a threshold showing that the plaintiff's cause of action to be stricken arises from the defendant's free speech or petition activity as specified in the statute. (Ibid.) Second, if the defendant has made that showing, the burden shifts to the plaintiff to establish, by admissible evidence, a probability of prevailing on the claim. (Ibid.) If the plaintiff fails to do so, the motion to st...
2020.08.26 Motion to Dismiss 534
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.08.26
Excerpt: ...ree years after the action is commenced against the defendant." (§ 583.210, subd. (a).) "[A]n action is commenced at the time the complaint is filed." (Ibid.) Dismissal is mandatory where a plaintiff fails to serve a defendant within the statutory time limits. (§ 583.250, subd. (b).) The three‐year rule applies where the defendant seeking dismissal was served as a Doe defendant named in the original complaint, later amended to show his or her...
2020.08.20 Demurrer 912
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.08.20
Excerpt: ...rocedural Bill of Rights (the “POBRA”), and relation in violation of the Labor Code within Plaintiffs LISA MCDOWELL (“MCDOWELL”) and NATALIE RAFFERTY's (“RAFFERTY”) complaint. Legal Standard. “The function of a demurrer is to test the sufficiency of the complaint as a matter of law.” (Holiday Matinee, Inc. v. Rambus, Inc. (2004) 118 Cal.App.4th 1413, 1420.) A complaint is sufficient if it alleges ultimate rather than evidentiary f...
2020.08.20 Anti-SLAPP Motion, Demurrer 912
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.08.20
Excerpt: ...p.5th 768, 780 (Argentieri).) First the defendant must make a threshold showing that the plaintiff's cause of action to be stricken arises from the defendant's free speech or petition activity as specified in the statute. (Ibid.) Second, if the defendant has made that showing, the burden shifts to the plaintiff to establish, by admissible evidence, a probability of prevailing on the claim. (Ibid.) If the plaintiff fails to do so, the motion to st...
2020.08.19 Motion for Summary Judgment 075
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.08.19
Excerpt: ...2(a) confirms that a public entity is liable for injury proximately caused by an act or omission of its employee if the act or omission would have given rise to a cause of action against that employee. In general, anyone owes a general duty to act with reasonable care, and can be liable for reasonably foreseeable injury caused by the breach of this duty. A person generally has no duty to take action to help another. However, when one voluntarily ...
2020.08.19 Demurrer 163
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.08.19
Excerpt: ...bilitation (“CDCR”) staff that allegedly mistreated Plaintiff. Government Code section 820.8 reads: “Except as otherwise provided by statute, a public employee is not liable for an injury caused by the act or omission of another person. Nothing in this section exonerates a public employee from liability for injury proximately caused by his own negligent or wrongful act or omission.” Plaintiff's allegations against DIAZ are that DIAZ had �...
2020.08.18 Demurrer 971
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.08.18
Excerpt: ...sufficiency of the complaint as a matter of law.” (Holiday Matinee, Inc. v. Rambus, Inc. (2004) 118 Cal.App.4th 1413, 1420.) A complaint is sufficient if it alleges ultimate rather than evidentiary facts, but the plaintiff must set forth the essential facts of his or her case “with reasonable precision and with particularity sufficient to acquaint [the] defendant with the nature, source and extent” of the plaintiff's claim. (Doheny Park Ter...
2020.08.13 Demurrer 971
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.08.13
Excerpt: ...sufficiency of the complaint as a matter of law.” (Holiday Matinee, Inc. v. Rambus, Inc. (2004) 118 Cal.App.4th 1413, 1420.) A complaint is sufficient if it alleges ultimate rather than evidentiary facts, but the plaintiff must set forth the essential facts of his or her case “with reasonable precision and with particularity sufficient to acquaint [the] defendant with the nature, source and extent” of the plaintiff's claim. (Doheny Park Ter...
2020.08.06 Demurrer 303
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.08.06
Excerpt: ...iano v. Lyle Doughty, FCS050116, dated November 6, 2018, and a quitclaim deed recorded in Solano County as document 1997‐00031840, showing Plaintiff's ownership of her property since 1997. Minute orders may be judicially noticed as records of a court of this state. (Ev. Code § 452, subd. (d).) The existence and legal significance of a recorded document may be judicially noticed as facts that cannot be reasonably controverted. (Ev. Code § 452,...
2020.08.05 Demurrer 939
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.08.05
Excerpt: ...e note, deed of trust, assignment of deed of trust, substitution of trustee, notice of default, notice of trustee's sale, and trustee's deed pertaining to the foreclosure at the heart of this case. The court takes judicial notice of the existence and legal significance of these recorded documents, and the adjustable rate note, as facts that cannot be reasonably controverted. (Ev. Code § 452, subds. (c), (h); Poseidon Development, Inc. v. Woodlan...
2020.08.04 Demurrer 971
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.08.04
Excerpt: ... test the sufficiency of the complaint as a matter of law.” (Holiday Matinee, Inc. v. Rambus, Inc. (2004) 118 Cal.App.4th 1413, 1420.) A complaint is sufficient if it alleges ultimate rather than evidentiary facts, but the plaintiff must set forth the essential facts of his or her case “with reasonable precision and with particularity sufficient to acquaint [the] defendant with the nature, source and extent” of the plaintiff's claim. (Dohen...
2020.07.30 Demurrer 971
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.07.30
Excerpt: ... test the sufficiency of the complaint as a matter of law.” (Holiday Matinee, Inc. v. Rambus, Inc. (2004) 118 Cal.App.4th 1413, 1420.) A complaint is sufficient if it alleges ultimate rather than evidentiary facts, but the plaintiff must set forth the essential facts of his or her case “with reasonable precision and with particularity sufficient to acquaint [the] defendant with the nature, source and extent” of the plaintiff's claim. (Dohen...
2020.07.29 Demurrer, Motion to Strike 588
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.07.29
Excerpt: ...tion must be alleged with specificity to allow the court to determine whether there is a prima facie foundation for the charge. (Small v. Fritz Companies, Inc. (2003) 30 Cal.4th 167, 184; Comm. on Children's Television, Inc. v. Gen. Foods Corp. (1983) 35 Cal.3d 197, 216‐217.) In an action for fraud against a corporation, the plaintiff must allege “the names of the persons who made the allegedly fraudulent representations, their authority to s...
2020.07.22 Demurrer 589
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.07.22
Excerpt: ...the landlord. Plaintiffs allege that the owner of the real property was Defendant Menemsha Equity, LLC, a limited liability company. (FAC, ¶¶ 5, 8.) Plaintiffs allege that Defendant Weisberg is the sole member of Menemsha who, at all relevant times, acted within the scope of his agency or representation for Menemsha. (FAC, ¶¶ 2, 6.) But, a limited liability company is distinct from its members. (Corp. Code § 17701.04(a).) The liabilities of ...
2020.07.14 Motion for Summary Judgment 382
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.07.14
Excerpt: ....S.C. § 1666 and 12 CFR § 202.12. 15 U.S.C. § 1666 concerns correction of errors in billing statements. 12 CFR § 202.12 concerns allowable ways for a creditor to retain otherwise prohibited information and records related to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. These items may be judicially noticed under Evidence Code section 452, subdivisions (a) and (b). However, the court declines to take judicial notice as these items do not bear on resoluti...
2020.07.14 Demurrer, Motion to Strike 369
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.07.14
Excerpt: ...rnow (Weil & Brown), Civil Procedure Before Trial, §6:158, pp. 6‐57 and 6‐58; see also Brousseau v. Jarrett (1977) 73 Cal.App.3d 864, 872 [a “conclusory characterization of defendant's conduct as intentional, willful and fraudulent is a patently insufficient statement of ‘oppression, fraud, or malice, express or implied,' within the meaning of section 3294”]. Civil Code §3294(c)(1) defines malice as “conduct which is intended to cau...
2020.07.09 Motion for Summary Judgment 382
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.07.09
Excerpt: ....S.C. § 1666 and 12 CFR § 202.12. 15 U.S.C. § 1666 concerns correction of errors in billing statements. 12 CFR § 202.12 concerns allowable ways for a creditor to retain otherwise prohibited information and records related to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. These items may be judicially noticed under Evidence Code section 452, subdivisions (a) and (b). However, the court declines to take judicial notice as these items do not bear on resoluti...
2020.07.09 Demurrer, Motion to Strike 369
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.07.09
Excerpt: ...rnow (Weil & Brown), Civil Procedure Before Trial, §6:158, pp. 6‐57 and 6‐58; see also Brousseau v. Jarrett (1977) 73 Cal.App.3d 864, 872 [a “conclusory characterization of defendant's conduct as intentional, willful and fraudulent is a patently insufficient statement of ‘oppression, fraud, or malice, express or implied,' within the meaning of section 3294”]. Civil Code §3294(c)(1) defines malice as “conduct which is intended to cau...
2020.07.08 Motion for Summary Judgment, Adjudication 407
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.07.08
Excerpt: ...6 Cal.4th 446, 460.) Because Defendant has not met this burden, Plaintiff has no burden to produce any evidence or disprove anything and the court must deny the motion without looking at any opposing evidence. (Y.K.A. Indus., Inc. v. Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Jose (2009) 174 Cal.App.4th 339, 353‐354; Hawkins v. Wilton (2006) 144 Cal.App.4th 936, 940; United Cmty. Church v. Garcin (1991) 231 Cal.App.3d 327, 338.) An insurance agent...
2020.07.08 Demurrer 163
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.07.08
Excerpt: ...bilitation (“CDCR”) staff that allegedly mistreated Plaintiff. Government Code section 820.8 reads: “Except as otherwise provided by statute, a public employee is not liable for an injury caused by the act or omission of another person. Nothing in this section exonerates a public employee from liability for injury proximately caused by his own negligent or wrongful act or omission.” Plaintiff's allegations against DIAZ are that DIAZ had �...
2020.06.25 Motion for Summary Judgment, Adjudication 725
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.06.25
Excerpt: ...as a matter of law. (Aguilar v. Atl. Richfield Co. (2001) 25 Cal.App.4th 826, 850) Despite this court's prior ruling that “Defendant Forsythe owed [Plaintiffs] a duty not to create an unreasonable risk of injury to them and breached that duty by informing Defendant Snyder he would look the other way if Snyder drove over Plaintiffs' signs” (Minute Order (2/26/20)), a duty that is not based on the duties of an owner of real property owed to inv...
2020.06.18 Motion for Summary Judgment 552
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.06.18
Excerpt: ...entire Declaration of Rob Reiter generally and to his various assertions of JPMC's negligence particularly. The court declines to rule on these objections to evidence as it deems them not material to disposition of the motion for summary judgment, as discussed below. (Code Civ. Proc. § 437c, subd. (q).) Legal Standard. A defendant may move for summary judgment on the basis that the plaintiff cannot establish an element of his cause of action. (C...
2020.06.04 Demurrer, Motion to Strike 945
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.06.04
Excerpt: ... 2, Unlabeled “Exhibit 2”; Decl. of Jones, Exh. B.) Page 2 of 3 These causes of action are all based on duties arising out of Defendant's attorney‐client relationship with Decedent. (Complaint, ¶¶ 23‐63, 76‐80.) Plaintiff does not have standing to commence these causes of action, which survive the death of Decedent. (Code Civ. Proc. § 377.20(a).) A cause of action that survives the death of the person entitled to commence an action �...
2020.05.26 Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings 065
Location: Solano
Judge: Carringer, Christine
Hearing Date: 2020.05.26
Excerpt: ...ed causes of action. Judicial Notice. The court may properly accept facts it may judicially notice or that cannot reasonably be controverted when ruling on a motion for judgment on the pleadings. (Columbia Casualty Co. v. Northwestern Nat. Ins. Co. (1991) 231 Cal.App.3d 457, 468.) Defendants request judicial notice of the first amended complaint (“FAC”) and the lease agreement between them, Rickie Welch, and Bobby Welch, II. The court decline...

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