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Excerpt: ...NDING PARTY: Unopposed Motion to Strike Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint and Answer to Cross -Complaint The court considered the moving papers filed in connection with this motion. No opposition papers were filed. DISCUSSION Defendant and cross -complainant Westside Contractors (“Westside”) moves the court for an order (1) striking the First Amended Complaint filed by plaintiff Regency Plastering, Inc. (“Plaintiff”) on April 14, 2022, ...

Excerpt: ...idered the moving papers filed in connection with this motion. No opposition papers were filed. DISCUSSION Plaintiff Gerardo Contreras (“Plaintiff”) seeks an order approving the settlement of his claims under the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (Labor Code, § 2698, et seq.) (“PAGA”), set forth in the “Individual Labor Code Claims and PAGA Settl ement Agreement” (the “Settlement”), entered into by and between Plai...

Excerpt: ...court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE The court grants defendant AIDS Healthcare Foundation's February 26, 2024 request to take judicial notice of the Third Amended Complaint filed in this action by plaintiffs Annette Turner and Tammy Davis on December 28, 2022. (Evid. Code, § 452, subd. (d).) LEGAL STANDARD The purpose of a motion for summary judgment or summa...

Excerpt: ...court considered the moving papers filed in connection with this motion. No opposition papers were filed. DISCUSSION Plaintiff Juan Cruz Rodriguez (“Plaintiff”) moves the court or an order (1) imposing terminating, issue, or evidence sanctions against defendant John Stich (“Defendant”), (2) awarding monetary sanctions in the amount of $1,500, payable by Defendant to the court, and (3) awarding monetary sanctions in favor of Plaintiff and ...

Excerpt: ...red the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. EVIDENTIARY OBJECTIONS The court rules on plaintiff Virginia Zamora's evidentiary objections, filed on May 7, 2024, as follows: Objections Nos. 1 -22 are overruled. DISCUSSION Plaintiff Virginia Zamora (“Plaintiff”) moves the court for an order awarding attorney's fees and costs in her favor and against defendant General Motors LLC (“Defendant”) in the tota...

Excerpt: ...to Demurrer to First Amended Complaint The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this demurrer. REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE The court grants defendants County of Los Angeles and Law Offices of the Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender's request for judicial notice, filed on March 19, 2024. [1] (Evid. Code, § 452, subd. (d).) DISCUSSION Plaintiff Justin Cato (“Plaintiff”) filed the operative...

Excerpt: ... or, in the Alternative, Tax Costs The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. DISCUSSION Plaintiffs Andres Manzo and Eva Mora (“Plaintiffs”) move the court for an order (1) striking, in its entirety, the memorandum of costs filed by defendant Hyundai Motor America (“Defendant”), or (2) alternatively, taxing $20,001.18 in costs claimed by Defen dant. The court finds that Defendant is...

Excerpt: ...rom Civil Complaint The court considered the moving papers filed in connection with this motion. No opposition papers were filed. DISCUSSION On September 29, 2023, the court issued an order granting the ex parte application filed by plaintiff Aysia A. Rowe (“Rowe”) and ordering that (1) this unlimited civil action filed by Rowe (Case No. 23STCV14562) (the “Civil Action”) and the limited civil a ction for unlawful detainer filed by defenda...

Excerpt: ...considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. EVIDENTIARY OBJECTIONS The court declines to rule on defendant AIDS Healthcare Foundation's evidentiary objections, filed on May 2, 2024, because those objections are directed to evidence that is not material to the court's disposition of this motion. (Code Civ. Proc., § 437c, subd. (q).) REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE The court grants defendant AIDS Healthcar...

Excerpt: ...efault Judgment, if Entered The court considered the moving and opposition papers filed in connection with this motion. No reply papers were filed. DISCUSSION Defendant Cristina Amado Loomis (“Defendant”) moves the court for an order setting aside her default, entered by the clerk on February 16, 2023, on the First Amended Complaint filed by plaintiff Chris Loomis (“Plaintiff”), pursuant to (1) Code of Civil Pro cedure section 473, (2) Co...

Excerpt: ...tiffs Amosun Akala, Daniel P. Stelzer, and Stacy Hayes Motion for Summary Judgment or, in the Alternative, Summary Adjudication The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. EVIDENTIARY OBJECTIONS The court rules on defendant Los Angeles Unified School District's evidentiary objections, filed on May 2, 2024, as follows: The court sustains Objections Nos. 9, 33, 41, and 52. The court overrules ...

Excerpt: ...nce Brown, Stephen Thompson, Erick Herrera, Diana Salazar, Christopher Pearl, Brandon Gaviria, Amanda Flores, Osvaldo Perez, Mark Escalante, Katherine Gerbasi, Danyelle Leah Sims, Kevin Jesus Ruiz, Elver Hernandez, Paris Was hington, Aaron Walker Matis, Lacramiora Muntean, Kent Villa, Jasmin Rincon, Elizabeth Tooley, Alicia Reyna, Samantha De Leon, Morgan Fangue, Leslye Alaniz, Katherine Gray, Katelynn Rhoads, and Grace Evelyn Bowland Motion to S...

Excerpt: ...itration and Stay Proceedings The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE The court grants defendant Worldwide Flight Services, Inc.'s request for judicial notice. (Evid. Code, § 452, subd. (h).) DISCUSSION Defendant Worldwide Flight Services, Inc. (“Defendant”) moves the court for an order (1) compelling plaintiff Angie Gonzalez (“Plaintiff”) to submit t...

Excerpt: ...lf of themselves and other aggrieved employees Demurrer to Second Amended Complaint The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this demurrer. DISCUSSION Plaintiffs Cecilia Hailey (“Hailey”), Chekarey Byers (“Byers”), and Timanii Meeks (“Meeks”), on behalf of themselves and other aggrieved employees (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), filed the operative Second Amended Complaint in this action ...

Excerpt: ...ainant Howard Management Group RESPONDING PARTY: Cross -defendant Pacific Coast Elevator Corporation d/b/a Amtech Elevator Services (1) Motion to Tax Costs MOVING PARTY: Defendant and cross- complainant 1544 9th Street, LLC RESPONDING PARTY: Cross -defendant Pacific Coast Elevator Corporation d/b/a Amtech Elevator Services (2) Motion to Strike Costs or, in the Alternative, to Tax Costs The court considered the moving, consolidated opposition, and...

Excerpt: ...QUEST FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS ) PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR ORDER DEEMING ADMITTED TRUTH OF FACTS MOVING PARTY: Plaintiff Selleton.com RESPONDING PARTY: Unopposed (1) Motion to Compel Responses to Form Interrogatories – General (2) Motion to Compel Responses to Special Interrogatories (3) Motion to Compel Responses to Requests for Production of Documents (4) Motion for Order Deeming Admitted Truth of Facts The court considered the moving papers ...

Excerpt: ...ecial Interrogatories The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. EVIDENTIARY OBJECTIONS The court rules on plaintiff Seran Ng, D.M.D. Inc.'s evidentiary objections, filed on April 25, 2024, as follows: Objections Nos. 1 and 8 are overruled. Objections Nos. 2-7 and 9 are sustained. DISCUSSION Plaintiff Seran Ng, D.M.D. Inc. (“Plaintiff”) moves the court for an order (1) compelling defend...

Excerpt: ...OCEDURE § 170.6 CHALLENGE TO JUDGE COCHRAN Order to Show Cause re why the court should not, on its own motion, (1) reconsider and vacate Judge Cochran's March 5, 2024 order accepting plaintiff/relator Newton W. Kellam's March 4, 2024 Code of Civil Procedure section 170.6 challenge against Judge Coc hran and reassigning this matter to Judge Robert B. Broadbelt in Department 53 for all further proceedings, and (2) issue a new order denying plainti...

Excerpt: ... Motion to Compel Plaintiff's Deposition and Request for Monetary Sanctions The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. DISCUSSION Defendants Los Indios de San Gabriel, Inc., and Andrew Salas (“Defendants”) move the court for an order (1) compelling plaintiff Emilio Reyes (“Plaintiff”) to appear for and testify at a videotaped, in- person deposition, and (2) awarding monetary sanctio...

Excerpt: ...nified School District (“Defendant”) filed, on January 25, 2024, a motion for summary judgment or, alternatively, summary adjudication against plaintiff Eric Jones (“Plaintiff”), with a hearing date of May 1, 2024. At the time that Defendant's motion was filed, trial was scheduled for February 28, 2024. On January 29, 2024, the court issued a minute order granting in part and denying in part Defendant's ex parte application to continue tr...

Excerpt: ...o. Payments, Inc., and Inter & Co., Inc. (joined by defendant Eliran Grushkowsky on September 8, 2023) RESPONDING PARTY: Plaintiff Forex Express Corp., d/b/a WireCash Motion to Quash Subpoenas for Production of Business Records The court considered the moving, joinder, opposition, and joint reply papers filed in connection with this motion. DISCUSSION Defendants Inter & Co. Payments, Inc., and Inter & Co., Inc. (“Inter Defendants”), joined by...

Excerpt: ...his motion. No opposition papers were filed. DISCUSSION Defendant Target Corporation (“Defendant”) moves the court for an order reclassifying this action, filed by plaintiff Emily Keough (“Plaintiff'), as a limited jurisdiction case. “If a party files a motion for reclassification after the time for that party . . . to respond to a complaint, cross-complaint, or other initial pleading, the court shall grant the motion and enter an order f...

Excerpt: ... LLC RESPONDING PARTY: Plaintiff Sharleyne Martin, on behalf of all aggrieved employees Motion to Compel Individual Arbitration and to Dismiss Action The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE The court denies defendant The Ritz- Carlton Hotel Company, LLC's request for judicial notice of various unpublished superior court orders. (Cal. Rules of Ct., rule 8.1115....

Excerpt: ...on, Inc. Motion to Compel Further Responses to Requests for Production of Documents The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE The court grants defendant AVX Design & Integration, Inc.'s request for judicial notice as to exhibit 1. (Evid. Code, § 452, subd. (c).) The court denies defendant AVX Design & Integration, Inc.'s request for judicial notice as to exhibi...