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2024.01.08 Motion to Quash Service of Summons 602
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2024.01.08
Excerpt: ...s personal jurisdiction over Defendant. Defendant is a distributor of quartz slabs supplied by a Vietnamese quartz manufacturer. Defendant is a Texas limited liability company with its principal place of business in Dallas. Defendant argues that it lacks sufficient ties with California for the Court to exercise general jurisdiction over Defendant and that Defendant has not purposefully availed itself of forum benefits for specific jurisdiction to...
2024.01.08 Demurrer 732
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2024.01.08
Excerpt: ...d on April 30, 2022. Plaintiff alleges that she is a credentialed member of the press and a transgender woman of color. (Comp., ¶ 10.) Plaintiff alleges that she was filming outside the Wilshire Boulevard Temple as a part of a journalistic piece that she was doing on the lack of congregants adhering to health mandates in relation to the global pandemic. (Comp., ¶ 11.) Plaintiff was filming a vehicle entering the property and standing at the pro...
2024.01.05 Motion for Summary Judgment, Adjudication 913
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2024.01.05
Excerpt: ...14, to the present in the position of Administrative Assistant I in Pasadena City College's (PCC) Office of Strategic Communications and Marketing. (UMF 1.) Plaintiff alleges that at the time of her hire, she was improperly placed at the lowest pay level for her position. (UMF 2.) Plaintiff alleges that she performed job duties outside of her job classification starting in September 2014. (UMF 3.) Plaintiff alleges that on December 10, 2014, and ...
2024.01.04 Demurrer to TAC 315
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2024.01.04
Excerpt: ... to be alleging that it entered into some type of agreement with Defendant Los Angeles County MTA (Defendant) for the usage of the Tap App in 2014. Plaintiff's Third Amended Complaint (TAC) does not include the specific terms of the agreement or have the agreement attached to the TAC. In Plaintiff's TAC, Plaintiff has sued Defendant along with Defendant's employees: Alvin Kusumoto, Evan Rosenberg, and Stephanie Wiggins. The TAC seems to include j...
2024.01.03 Motion to Compel Further Responses 488
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2024.01.03
Excerpt: ...iff) served Defendant Greystar California, Inc. (Defendant) with Form Interrogatories and Requests for Production of Documents. After Plaintiff gave Defendant an extension, responses were due by December 4, 2023, but no responses were received. (Motions at p. 3.) Plaintiff filed these motions on December 5, 2023. Plaintiff seeks an order compelling responses to the form interrogatories and requests for production. Plaintiff seeks sanctions in the...
2024.01.02 Motion to Dismiss for Failure to File FAC 012
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2024.01.02
Excerpt: ... 2023. Plaintiff filed his (late) Opposition June 20, 2023. City of Alhambra filed a Reply on June 23, 2023. On June 26, 2023 the Court sustained the Demurrer noting: “First and foremost, since Plaintiff's complaint is against a government entity, for the complaint to survive it would have needed to include an allegation that Plaintiff complied with the Government Tort Claims Act. There is no such allegation. Accordingly, Defendant's demurrer m...
2024.01.02 Motion for Terminating Sanctions 203
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2024.01.02
Excerpt: ...eges that she obtained a judgment against Flowers and filed a judgment lien against the property. Thus, she claims that she is entitled to the excess proceeds from the foreclosure. Defendant SBS Trust Deed Network answered and filed a Cross-Complaint in interpleader claiming that there are conflicting claims to the excess proceeds ($355,000) from the foreclosure. It alleged that it would pay the excess funds into the Court. It has not done so. Bo...
2023.12.26 Motion to Compel Arbitration 402
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.12.26
Excerpt: ...Act and negligent repair of the vehicle. Plaintiff's Song-Beverly claims arise out of the written warranty provided by Mercedes-Benz. The written warranty provided by Mercedes-Benz does not contain an arbitration provision. The dealer that sold the vehicle to Plaintiff entered into a retail sales contract with the Plaintiff. It expressly disavowed any warranties. (Paragraph 4.) But it contained an arbitration provision. So, having chosen to NOT i...
2023.12.22 Motions to Strike 831
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.12.22
Excerpt: ...of Plaintiffs' First Amended Complaint, Plaintiffs have requested exemplary (punitive) damages and attorney fees for the Second and Third Causes of Action in their demand for judgment. Defendant filed this motion to strike in order to strike Plaintiffs' requests for exemplary damages and attorney fees. Plaintiff entered into a written contract with Defendant for a one-way private jet aircraft trip from Maui Hawaii to Van Nuys California, to be ta...
2023.12.21 Motion to Strike Costs 550
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.12.21
Excerpt: ... of showing that there were triable issues of fact for her causes of action for sexual harassment, FEHA retaliation, and whistleblower retaliation against Defendant. Judgment was entered in favor of Defendant on August 21, 2023. On October 27, 2023, Defendant filed its Memorandum of Costs, in which it is requesting $19,071.90 in costs. On November 9, 2023, Plaintiff filed her motion to strike Defendant's memorandum of costs. Plaintiff filed the m...
2023.12.20 Motion to Bifurcate 586
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.12.20
Excerpt: ...ach of duty of good faith and fair dealing and breach of contractual duty to pay a covered claim against Defendant. As part of her claim for relief, Plaintiff is requesting punitive damages against State Farm. Defendant is requesting that the Court bifurcate the liability phase of the trial from the punitive damages part of the trial so that Defendant must first be found to have acted with malice, fraud, or oppression before Defendant must disclo...
2023.12.20 Motion for Summary Judgment, Adjudication 063
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.12.20
Excerpt: ...f) has sued Defendant Child Care Resource Center, Inc. (CCRC) (Defendant) for two causes of action: negligence and violation of mandatory duty. Defendant CCRC provides childcare referrals for licensed childcare provides to parents and guardians. (UMF 1.) Plaintiff's mother and guardian ad litem, Ashley Holmes, utilized CCRC's services. (UMF 2.) Holmes understood that CCRC was not responsible for licensing the childcare providers for which CCRC pr...
2023.12.15 Motion for Attorney Fees 799
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.12.15
Excerpt: ...tion for Summary Judgment, or, in the Alternative, Summary Adjudication Forouzan Golshani vs. Board of Trustees of the California State University, 20STCV40168 Moving Parties: Defendant Board of Trustees of the California State University Responding Party: Plaintiff Forouzan Golshani I. Background Plaintiff Forouzan Golshani (Plaintiff) was Dean of the of the College of Engineering at California State University Long Beach (CSULB) from 2007 to 20...
2023.12.14 Motions to Deem RFAs Admitted 413
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.12.14
Excerpt: ...is to ask the Court to follow the interpretation of law noted by another Superior Court Judge. Rule of Court 8.1115 essentially provides that only published California Supreme Court or Cout of Appeal decisions may be cited. Other cases “must not be cited or relied on by the court or a party in any other action.” How does this rule apply to (unpublished) Superior Court rulings by other judges? Perhaps the failure of the Rule to address this qu...
2023.12.14 Demurrer to FAC, Motion to Strike 162
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.12.14
Excerpt: ... Defendant. The cause of action at issue in the demurrer is Plaintiff's Seventh Cause of Action for Sexual Assault and Battery. Plaintiff's cause of action for Sexual Assault and Battery is based on her allegations that her former Leader on Duty, Eros Surla kissed her and touched her in an inappropriate manner while she was at work. (FAC, ¶¶ 29-32, 134, 135.) Plaintiff filed her FAC on September 25, 2023. Defendant filed this demurrer on Octobe...
2023.12.13 Motion for Summary Judgment, to Seal Certain Exhibits 663
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.12.13
Excerpt: ...amed, M.D., (Plaintiff) filed this case on June 24, 2022. Plaintiff has alleged one cause of action against Defendants Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC), CFHS Holdings dba Marina del Rey Hospital (MDR Hospital), the Medical Staff of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC Medical Staff), and the Medical Staff of CFHS Holdings dba Marina del Rey Hospital (MDR Hospital Medical Staff) (collectively Defendants). Plaintiff's cause of action against Defenda...
2023.12.05 Motion to Strike 636
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.12.05
Excerpt: ...a, Inc. (Defendants) failed to provide him with disability accommodations as his employers. He also alleges several other causes of action related to his employment and termination. As part of his complaint, Plaintiff has made requests for punitive damages at pp. 9:1-6; 10:24-27 – 11:1-2; 15:6-11; 16:17-22; 18:9-14; and in paragraph 8 of the Prayer for Relief on p. 27. Defendants have moved to strike Plaintiff's requests for punitive damages on...
2023.12.05 Motion to Compel Compliance with Subpoenas 139
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.12.05
Excerpt: ... Plaintiff did not object to the subpoena, did not oppose the Motion to Compel Compliance with the Deposition Subpoena, and has not presented any showing that any communications are not directly related to her claimed damages against the County. Downtown also failed to set forth any showing that there are any communications not directly related to the issues Plaintiff tendered to the Court. To the contrary, Plaintiff made it clear through written...
2023.11.30 Motion to Compel Responses to RFAs, to Compel Compliance with Statement of Compliance 829
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.11.30
Excerpt: ...of action in the Complaint included multiple FEHA violations including discrimination based on disability, harassment, and retaliation; retaliation for disclosing violations of the law; and violations of wage and hour statutes. On January 11, 2023, Defendant Juan Gonzalez served a first set of Requests for Admission. On March 24, 2024 Plaintiff served responses and objections. On August 4, 2024, Plaintiff served supplemental responses and objecti...
2023.11.29 OSC Re Propriety of Self-Represented Plaintiff Asserting PAGA Claim 244
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.11.29
Excerpt: ...omplaint and Motion to Compel Arbitration This action was initiated by Plaintiff Marcus Witt against Defendant Postmates Inc. on January 12, 2023 as a limited jurisdiction case assigned to Judge Mark E. Windham in the Spring Street Courthouse Dept. 26. It is styled as a “Complaint for Civil Penalties under the Private Attorney General Act of 2004 (“PAGA”).” A First Amended Complaint was filed January 13, 2023. It alleged the same PAGA cla...
2023.11.28 Motion to Compel Arbitration 024
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.11.28
Excerpt: ... filed its motion to compel arbitration on September 1, 2023. In October 2018, the parties signed a General Agent Agreement. That Agreement included an arbitration provision that reads as follows: The Parties agree that any legal disputes or claims between the Parties, including any regarding this Agreement or its termination (including but not limited to the interpretation, enforceability, revocability, or validity of the Agreement, or the arbit...
2023.11.22 Motion to Compel Further Responses 344
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.11.22
Excerpt: ...nts 1016 Industries, Inc., and Peter Northrop (Defendants) filed these motion after Plaintiff Giavanna Papasavvas (Plaintiff) objected to some of their special interrogatories and did not provide what Defendants considered to be full and complete responses. For Defendant 1016 Industries, the relevant Special Interrogatories are Nos. 3, 17, 19, and 20. Defendant filed this motion pursuant to CCP §§ 2030.300 and 2023.010. Defendant filed the moti...
2023.11.22 Motion to Compel Arbitration 754
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.11.22
Excerpt: ...ent. On January 23, 2020, Plaintiff entered into an Arbitration Agreement in connection with her employment, in which it was agreed that she would arbitrate any and all claims, disputes or controversies related to her employment. (Bouchard Decl., Ex. 2.) The Arbitration Agreement included an opt out provision. (Id.) Based on this Agreement, Defendant has moved to compel arbitration, claiming that Plaintiff's claims are arbitrable under the Agreem...
2023.11.21 Motion to Compel Further Responses, for Sanctions 413
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.11.21
Excerpt: ...t Form Interrogatories are Nos. 200.4, 201.1, 201.4, 207.2, 209.2, 211.1, 211.2, 211.3, 214.1, 216.1, and 217. Plaintiff filed this motion pursuant to CCP §§ 2030 et seq. Plaintiff is requesting $11,400 in sanctions for having to bring the motion. Plaintiff filed the motion on July 24, 2023. Defendant alleges in its opposition that Plaintiff failed to meet and confer in good faith. By November 13, 2023, Defendant had served supplemental respons...
2023.11.21 Demurrer to FAC 268
Location: Los Angeles
Judge: Stern, Douglas
Hearing Date: 2023.11.21
Excerpt: ... § 18.) Plaintiff also alleges that that the scooter malfunctioned and/or unexpectedly accelerated and caused Plaintiff to fall off the scooter. (FAC, § 21.) There is also much boilerplate that uses conclusory verbiage but adds no substance. Based on this incident, Plaintiff has alleged a cause of action for premises liability against Defendant City of Los Angeles and two causes of action for product liability and negligence against Defendant L...

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