Excerpt: ...a).) Therefore, Defendant is entitled to an order compelling Plaintiff to provide answers, without obj ection, to the subject discovery within 30 days. (Co d e Civ. Proc. § 2030.290(b). ) The Court further finds that Defendant is entitled to an award of monetary sanctions in connection with this motion. (Code Civ. Proc. § 2030.290(c), 2023.010(d), 2023.030(a); Cal. Rules of Ct., rule 3.1348(a).) Therefore, monetary sanctions in the amount o f $...

Excerpt: ...k that requires a contractor's license pursuant to Bu s . & P ro f. Co d e § 7 0 2 6 . Th e re fo re, Plaintiff, as an unlicensed contractor, is precluded from seeking recovery in law or equity for compensation under the alleged agreement. (Bus & Prof. Code § 7031(a).) Further, as it appears Plaintiff is unable to demonstrate the required licensure, the Court finds that leave to amend would be futile under the circumstances and is, therefore, d...

Excerpt: ...d - CONTINUED, to 5/ 3/ 24 at 8:30 am in Department 22; c) Plaintiff's Motion to Quash Deposition Subpoena Seeking Plaintiff's Employment Records from Smithfield Packaged Meats and for Monetary Sanctions again Defendant and/ or it's Attorneys of Record – CONTINUED, to 5/ 3/ 24 at 8:30 am in Department 2 2 a-c) The motions are procedurally defective. A separate statement is required for a motion “”[t]o compel or to quash the production of do...

Excerpt: ...rgument that this Court is divested of jurisdiction for a contempt proceeding. Petitioner's citation to Albrecht v. Superior Court (1982) 132 Cal.App.3d 612 appears reasonable, and Defendant's citations do not appear to be directly on point. It does not appear to the Court that the rules of Code Civ. Proc. § 664.6 – which do require the Court to retain jurisdiction – apply in this matter. The Court notes that any express retention of jurisdi...

Excerpt: ... The Court understands the circumstances surrounding the filings, but cannot view the failure to timely file the separate statement as the sort of error the Court has the jurisdiction to overlook, as Plaintiff suggests. The separate statement is a necessary part of the motion (Rule of Court 3.1345. ) P la in t if f c it e s Mills v. U.S. Ba n k (2008) 166 Cal.App. 4 th 871, 893 for the proposition that a separate statement does not require that t...

Excerpt: ...ll Co. v. Cit y of Ana he im ,(1994) 25 Cal. App. 4th 11, 35,); Da rr v. Lone St a r Indust ries , Inc., (1979) 94 Cal. App. 3d 895, 900) . The Court also finds that the conveyance of the dominant tenement transfers all appurtenant easements to the grantee, even though the easements are not s p e c if ic a lly m e n t io n e d in t h e d e e d . ( Moyla n v. Dyke s , (1986)181 Cal. App. 3d 561, 568) . Furthermore, an appurtenant easement is a par...

Excerpt: ...claration: 9. SUSTAINED as to relevance. Objections to Klapper declaration: 10. SU STAIN ED . 11. O VERRU LED . Defendant's motion fails due to an insufficient separate statement. A moving party on summary judgment bears the initial burden of product ion to make a p r im a fa c ie showing that there are no triable issues of material fact. [Aguilar v. Atlantic Richfield Co. (2001) 25 Cal.4th 826]. If the moving party carries this burden, it causes...

Excerpt: ...t in the county where the defendants or some of them reside at the commencement of the action is the proper court for the trial of the action. ” Plaintiff cites no authority for his assertion that liability under Labor Code § 558.1 is the equivalent of alter -ego liability and that the venue rules for alter ego therefore apply. Without such authority, the Court declines to extend alter -e go venue rul es to possible liability under Labor Code ...

Excerpt: ...�the superior court in the county where the defendants or some of them reside at the commencement of the action is the proper court for the trial of the action. ” Plaintiff's argument in opposition relies heavily on Labor Code § 558.1. The Court notes that this argument fails on its face because the current iteration of this pleading (the First Amended Complaint) does not allude at all to that statute, let alone contain a cause of action based...

Excerpt: ...d as required by the Court's order granting preliminary approv a l. Having considered the unopposed motions herein and the supporting declarations and evidence, the Court finds that the settlement was entered into good faith, is fair, reasonable and adequate, and satisfies the standards for final approval under Califo r n ia la w . (Civ il Co d e §1 7 8 1 ; Co d e Civ . Proc. §382; Cal. Rules of Ct., rule 3.769.) The motion indicates that the n...

Excerpt: ...itting all material facts properly pleaded, but not contentions, deductions or conclusions of fact or law. [Citation.] The courts “also consider matters which may b e ju d ic ia lly n o t ic e d . ” ( Serra no v. Priest (1971) 5 Cal.3d 584, 591. ) Fir s t Ca u s e o f Ac t io n Defendants contend that the statute at issue does not authorize a reverse validation action. Water Code § 10726.6(a) states, “A groundwater sustainability agency th...

Excerpt: ...pute in this case is whether an offset is warranted. The fees listed appear to be due to the City of Patterson under the terms of the agreement. The City is acting as a pass-through for the funds, but appears to exercise control over tho se funds and thus the parties are not the same despite the pass-through arrangement . The Court is also unconvinced that the current amount allegedly owed by Plaintiff is probably valid. Defendant refers to porti...

Excerpt: ...interim. Plaintiff's actions delayed this case without good cause to do so, and counsel is cautioned that the Court has an affirmative obligation to ensure cases are completed timely and to prevent recurrences in the future. This paragraph is designed to achieve that objective . The Court tends to agree with Plaintiff that the phraseology in the Notice of Motion is not ideal, but it does make clear that there is a challenge to the dangerous condi...

Excerpt: ...r im a r y is s u e s r a is e d in t h e first de murre r . First Cause of Act ion: Bre ach of Cont ract . At the pleading stage, the Court d e c lin e s t o f in d t h a t in t e g r a t io n o f t h e t e r m s in t h e e m a ils is n e c e s s a r ily v o id . Whether a collateral agreement is intended to be a part of the bargain is based on the totality of t he circumstance s. ( Ma st erson v. Sine (1968) 68 Cal.2d 222). Defendant argues tha...

Excerpt: ...ly or dependent adults, regardless of their professional standing, to carry out their custodial obligations. (Cal.Welf. & Inst.Code § 15610.57(b), Carter v. Prime Healthcare Paradise Valley LLC, (2011), 198 Cal. App. 4th 396, as modified (Aug. 24, 2011) “Recklessness” refers to a subjective state of culpability greater than simple negligence, which has been described as a “deliberate disregard” of the “high degree of probability” tha...

Excerpt: ...e of the claim. Defendants can now use discovery to uncover the specific, evidentiary facts that Plaintiff contends supports the ultimate fact. As for the element of hostility, that is a question for the trier of fact. Second Cause of Action Overruled. The fact that Plaintiff alleged in another complaint the existence of another easement to the same parcels of land is not a conclusive admission that such easements ever existed or do in fact exist...

Excerpt: ...Construction LLC dba Solgen Electric. She discussed this with them in November, 2022. She received a loan from WebBank, obtained via an electronic lending platform operated by Solar Mosaic LLC to pay for the solar roofing, on recommendation of Solgen. Plaintiff alleges she signed a contract on December 2, 2022, the same day she was provided the contract, in her First Amended Complaint. In her declaration opposing this motion, she says she was ask...

Excerpt: ... merits, Moving Party objects on the grounds of (1) privacy, and (2) lack of standing. Neither argument is persuasive. One of the chief allegations in this case is that Respondent abused the power-of-attorney agreement to use the proposed conservatee's funds and assets for his own benefit. That makes the information sought quite relevant to this case. While there is a state constitutional right to privacy applicable to financial records, that rig...

Excerpt: ...finds that the opposing parties have met their burden in this regard. With regard to the existence of a dangerous condition, the opposing evidence demonstrates material factual disputes about the nature and severity of the subject condition which prevent this issue from being adjudicated as a matter of law. (See, at a minimum, Plaintiff's response to UMF 11 and Plaintiff's Additional Facts.) With regard to the issue of notice, the opposing eviden...

Excerpt: ... separate statements, and the contnuance is intended to allow Defendant to submit a supplemental opposition responding to the same by the opposition deadline as calculated from the continued hearing date. The Court does not view the failure to timely submit a separate statement as merely procedural; separate statements give the Court and the other party necessary information. The Court anticipates the issues will be narrowed prior to the hearing ...

Excerpt: ...ing that has been amended after a demurrer to an earlier version of the pleading was sustained shall not demur to any portion of the amended complaint, cross-complaint, or answer on grounds that could have been raised by demurrer to the earlier version of the complaint, cross-complaint, or answer." (Ca. Law and Motion Authorities S 29:5A). Furthermore, if a demurrer is sustained and the complaint is amended, no subsequent demurrer can be brought ...

Excerpt: ...iate for determination on demurrer. Moreover, the instant demurrer is not the proper procedural vehicle for a challenge to Plaintiffs' ability to claim punitive damages. (See, e.g. Grieves v. Superior Court (Leonard L. Fox) (1984) 157 Cal.App.3d 159, 163.) Defendants' Request for Judicial Notice is GRANTED as to the existence and contents of the subject court records. (Sosinskyv. Grant (1992) 6 Cal.App.4th 1548.) However, the Court finds that the...

Excerpt: ...e to the First Amended Complaint as a whole. Most of these arguments have either been made, or were available to be made against the initial complaint. The appearance of an amended complaint does not resuscitate rights to a demurrer which have been otherwise forfeited. Uncertainty A demurrer for uncertainty should be sustained only where the pleading is so unintelligible that the defendant cannot reasonably respond. (See Khoury v. Maly's of Calif...

Excerpt: ...y and as Plaintiff would not have an opportunity to respond to said issue, considerations of fairness require the Court to decline to consider that issue. Reichardt v. Hoffman (1997) 52 Cal.App.4th 754, 765 ; United Grand Corp. v. Malibu Hillbillies, LLC, (2019) 36 cal. App. 5th 142.) The court also notes that Defendant's request for judicial notce was not, as is required, made by a separate document listing the items for which notice is requeste...

Excerpt: ...iled a Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) action comprised of individual and non-individual claims, an order compelling arbitration of individual claims does not strip the plaintiff of standing to litigate non-individual claims in court. (Adolph v. Uber Techs., Inc., (2023) 14 Cal. 5th 1104; Cal. Lab. Code S 2699(c)).Accordingly, the Court finds that Plaintiff herein may still maintain his non-individual claims in state court. However, in relia...