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2024.05.31 Motion to Compel Compliance with Deposition Subpoena 397
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.31
Excerpt: ...ts”) move the Court for an order compelling nonparty Dr. Massoud Amini to produce the requested records pursuant to a subpoena and pay monetary sanctions for failure to do so.” T he Court notes that the declaration attached to the motion contains typographical errors making it difficult for the Court to determine who is filing the declaration, i.e., defense counsel signs the document, implying this is counsel's declaration, and the top of the...
2024.05.31 Motion for Leave to File SAC 682
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.31
Excerpt: ...r all pleadings are completed (the case is “at issue”) and new information requires a change in the nature of the claims or defenses previously pleaded. (See Dye v. Caterpillar, Inc. (2011) 195 Cal.App.4th 1366, 1380.) “The policy favoring amendment is so strong that it is a rare case in which denial of leave to amend can be justified. Leave to amend should be denied only where the facts are not in dispute, and the nature of the plaintiff's...
2024.05.30 Special Motion to Strike Complaint 519
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.30
Excerpt: ...il Procedure section 425.16 on the grounds that Plaintiffs' claims arise fro m acts in furtherance of rights of petition and free speech, as the claims are based on Defendant's privileged statements in a letter sent to Plaintiffs' real estate agents concerning an issue that is still pending before the Malibu City Council and is a matter of public interest, and Plaintiffs cannot succeed on their claims. Plaintiffs ask the Court to deny the motion ...
2024.05.30 Motion for Leave to File FAC 318
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.30
Excerpt: ...�) to add allegations regarding the cause of the fire, allegations supporting the negligence cause of action against TripAdvisor LLC, FlipKey LLC, and Holi day Lettings Limited based on the cause of the fire, to add trespass and conversion causes of action, and to remove Jairo Amaru Rodriques -Quispe as a defendant. The court may grant leave to amend the pleadings at any stage of the action. (Code Civ. Proc., § 473, subd. (a).) A party may disco...
2024.05.22 Motion to Compel Responses 432
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.22
Excerpt: ...endant Robert Lance's Request for Monetary Sanctions is GRANTED in the reduced amount of $2,585, payable by Plaintiff Robert Meza and Plaintiff's counsel to Defendant Robert Lance and defense counsel within thirty (30) days of entry of this order. Defendant Robert Lance to give notice. REASONING Defendant Robert Lance (“Defendant”) moves the Court for an order compelling Plaintiff Robert Meza (“Plaintiff”) to respond and comply with a dem...
2024.05.21 Motion to Strike 448
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.21
Excerpt: ...rtions of the complaint. TENTATIVE RULING Defendant Million Tesfai Michael's Motion to Strike Portions of Plaintiff's Complaint is GRANTED, with thirty (30) days leave to amend. Plaintiff Rick Thompson on behalf of Estate of Kenneth Jordan as Successor in Interest may amend his complaint only as authorized by the Court's order and may not amend the complaint to add a new party or cause of action without having obtained permission to do so. (Harri...
2024.05.17 Motion for Summary Judgment 263
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.17
Excerpt: ...niel V. Behesnilian is ordered to release all funds presently held in his attorney -client trust account on behalf of Cemil Gunday, recovered in Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 19STCV15444, which shall be released to counsel for Defendants -in- Intervention Jason Cuellar, M.D.; John Greenfield, M.D.; Glendale Diagnostic Imaging Network, Inc.; San Dimas Pain Management Center, Inc.; Pasadena Laser & Surgery Center; Spectrum Health Center; Coas...
2024.05.16 Demurrer to FAC 999
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.16
Excerpt: ... Gretzky and Janet Gretzky to give notice. REASONING Request for Judicial Notice Defendants Wayne Gretzky and Janet Gretzky (“Defendants”) request judicial notice of the June 22, 2023, minute order in this action, and the August 1, 2023, minute order entered in Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 22SMCV02110 (Mahajan v. Gretzky). Defen dants' request is GRANTED pursuant to Evidence Code section 452, subdivision (d). Errata Plaintiff's First A...
2024.05.14 Motion to Quash Service of Summons and Complaint 465
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.14
Excerpt: ...e ground of lack of jurisdiction of the court over him. Defendant Jean- Pierre Murray (“Defendant”) moves to quash service of the summons and complaint upon him on the ground that Plaintiffs Richard N. Husky and Kevan J. Husky (“Plaintiffs”) did not serve Defendant by substituted service, nor was posting and mailing service proper here. Notably, “[w]hen a defendant challenges the co urt's personal jurisdiction on the ground of improper ...
2024.05.08 Motion for Attorney Fees 043
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.08
Excerpt: ...6, subdivision (c), which provides that “a prevailing defendant on a special motion to strike shall be entitled to recover that defendant's attorney's fees and costs.” Defendant moves for an order awarding it $105,170.05 in fees, which consists of 17 4.3 hours of work performed (1) reviewing and analyzing Plaintiff Philip Elghanian (“Plaintiff”)'s claims; (2) researching and analyzing the applicable case law to support Defendant's special...
2024.05.08 Demurrer 128
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.08
Excerpt: ...Defendant John Chickanis to give notice. REASONING “[A] demurrer tests the legal sufficiency of the allegations in a complaint.” (Lewis v. Safeway, Inc. (2015) 235 Cal.App.4th 385, 388.) A demurrer can be used only to challenge defects that appear on the face of the pleading under attack or from matters ou tside the pleading that are judicially noticeable. (See Donabedian v. Mercury Ins. Co. (2004) 116 Cal.App.4th 968, 994 [in ruling on a dem...
2024.05.08 Motion to Deem RFAs Admitted 840
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.08
Excerpt: ...f $600.00, payable by Defendant Enedelia Leal Powers and defense counsel to Plaintiff Ocean Sunrise LLC and Plaintiff's counsel within thirty (30) days of entry of this order. Plaintiff Ocean Sunrise LLC's Motion for Matters Being Deemed Admitted [Against Defendants Bonnie B. Flores and Christopher J. Flores] Pursuant to CCP § 2033.280 is DENIED as MOOT. Plaintiff Ocean Sunrise LLC's Request for Monetary Sanctions Against Defendants Bonnie B. Fl...
2024.05.08 Motion to Strike 576
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.08
Excerpt: ... California (“Defendant”) moves to strike Plaintiff Robert Johnson, Individually and as Heir and Successor -in- Interest to Patricia Johnson, Deceased (“Plaintiff”)'s prayer for punitive damages against it. The Court first notes that Defendant reserved a hearing for a demurrer to the First Amended Complaint, but no such motion was filed with the Court. Thus, the demurrer is taken off calendar. Second, Plaintiff has not filed an opposition...
2024.05.07 Demurrer, Motion to Protective Order 364
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.07
Excerpt: ...laintiff Cynthia Galas's Demurrer to Affirmative Defenses Set Forth in Defendant Green Check Verified's Answer; Plaintiff Cynthia Galas's Demurrer to Affirmative Defenses Set Forth in Defendant GCV Ventures, LLC's Answer “A party against whom an answer has been filed may object, by demurrer as provided in [Code of Civil Procedure] [s]ection 430.40, to the answer upon any one or more of the following grounds: [¶] (a) The answer does not state f...
2024.05.02 Motion to Compel Answers, for Monetary Sanctions 167
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.02
Excerpt: ...nts Jonah Nok Him Woo and Tommy Woo's Motion to Compel Response to Request for Production of Documents is GRANTED. Plaintiff Amaya Molina shall serve code -compliant responses to Defendants Jonah Nok Him Woo and Tommy Woo's Request for Production of Documents, Set One, without objections, within thirty (30) days of entry of this order. Defendants Jonah Nok Him Woo and Tommy Woo's Request for Monetary Sanctions is GRANTED in the reduced amount of ...
2024.05.02 Motion for Summary Judgment 911
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.02
Excerpt: ...nvestments, LLC (“Plaintiff”) was not the initial owner or landlord under the l ease; at no time has Plaintiff given Defendants notice of a change in ownership; Plaintiff did not enter into a lease agreement with either Defendants; Plaintiff lacks standing to demand rent because a change of ownership was not provided under Civil Code 1962; and Plaintiff had previously declared that the lease was forfeited, such that Plaintiff is entitled only...
2024.05.02 Motion for Discharge and Award of Costs and Attorney Fees, for Deposit 049
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.05.02
Excerpt: ...omplainant American Contractors Indemnity Company in connection with Contractor's License Bond, Bond No. 100710093 discharged. Upon the deposit of $23,000, the Court awards Defendant/Cross- Complainant American Contractors Indemnity Company reasonable attorney fees and expenses in the sum of $2,000 as allowance for costs and expenses incurred in this proceeding. Defendant and Cross-Complainant Old Republic Surety Company to give notice. REASONING...
2024.04.26 Motion to Seal Exhibits 169
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.04.26
Excerpt: ...inants Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.; Woodbine Legacy/Playa Owner LLC; Davidson Hotel Company LLC; and Steve Wisner's Motion for Summary Judgment or, in the Alternative Summary Adjudication is CONTINUED to a date TBD. On or before a date TBD, the parties shall provide revised separate statements and exhibits for the Court's review. Defendants shall provide a transcript of any audio recordings on which it relies, and the transcripts must be prope...
2024.04.26 Motion to Expunge Lis Pendens 014
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.04.26
Excerpt: ... November 20, 2014, Raymond Tash, Trustee and Plaintiff's counsel to Defendants Vladimir Valsky, Val Serebryany, as trustee of the Serebryany Family Trust, and VIG Private Lending, Inc. and defense counsel within thirty (30) days of entry of this order. Defendants Vladimir Valsky, Val Serebryany, as trustee of the Serebryany Family Trust, and VIG Private Lending, Inc. to give notice. REASONING Defendants Vladimir Valsky, Val Serebryany, as truste...
2024.04.26 Motion for Leave to File SAC 145
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.04.26
Excerpt: ...after all pleadings are completed (the case is “at issue”) and new information requires a change in the nature of the claims or defenses previously pleaded. (See Dye v. Caterpillar, Inc. (2011) 195 Cal.App.4th 1366, 1380.) “The policy favoring amendment is so strong that it is a rare case in which denial of leave to amend can be justified. Leave to amend should be denied only where the facts are not in dispute, and the nature of the plainti...
2024.04.25 Motion to Stay Civil Action Pending Resolution of Criminal Proceedings 908
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.04.25
Excerpt: ...riminal proceeding against Defendant Jeffrey Tamkin (Los Angeles Superi or Court Case No. 514932 (People v. Jeffrey Herter Tamkin)). Defendants argue that a stay is necessary to protect Tamkin's Fifth Amendment rights in connection with the criminal proceeding, which arises from the same underlying facts as this civil action, and because Tamkin is the only officer and manager of Tamkin Development Corporation, the corporation would be prejudiced ...
2024.04.25 Motion to Compel Inspection 286
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.04.25
Excerpt: ...mply with a demand for a contemporaneous inspection of the subject ladder and subject premises pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure sec tion 2031.010. Defendant opposes the motion on the grounds that he has agreed to an inspection of the premises and ladder involved in the incident, but he objects to the simultaneous inspection because it is burdensome and costly because the ladder is in evidence storage in Ontario, California, pursuant to a deman...
2024.04.24 Motion to Challenge Privilege Clawback 608
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.04.24
Excerpt: ... information in discovery that is later subject to a claim of privilege or of protection as attorney work product “may seek a determi nation of the claim from the court by making a motion within 30 days of receiving the claim and presenting the information to the court conditionally under seal.” Defendant/Cross-Complainant Said Hakim (“Said”) moves the Court for an order determining that a 2016 email exchange between Cross-Defendant Micha...
2024.04.24 Motion for Leave to File Complaint 340
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.04.24
Excerpt: ... notice. REASONING The court may grant leave to amend the pleadings at any stage of the action. (Code Civ. Proc., § 473, subd. (a).) A party may discover the need to amend after all pleadings are completed (the case is “at issue”) and new information requires a change in the nature of the claims or defenses previously pleaded. (See Dye v. Caterpillar, Inc. (2011) 195 Cal.App.4th 1366, 1380.) “The policy favoring amendment is so strong that...
2024.04.05 Motion for Summary Adjudication 254
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Lisa
Hearing Date: 2024.04.05
Excerpt: ...rmination in violation of public policy, a nd tenth cause of action for violation of Penal Code section 496 alleged against Defendants James Bekhor (“James”) and James S. Bekhor Insurance Services, Inc. (“JSB”) (collectively “Defendants”). The Court notes that Plaintiff's motion was filed as to the First Amended Complaint, but Plaintiff was subsequently granted leave to file a Second Amended Complaint (“SAC”) after the motion was ...

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