Excerpt: ...ual On February 5, 2024, Plaintiffs, Tatiana McNeal and Yolanda Johnson (collectively “Plaintiffs”) filed a Complaint against Defendants, Graceway, LLC and DOES 1 through 20. The Complaint alleges causes of action for: (1) Breach of Contract; (2) Breach of Imp lied Warranty of Habitability/Tenantability; (3) Breach of Implied Warranty of Quiet Enjoyment; (4) Negligence; and (5) Nuisance. Defendant, Graceway, LLC (“Defendant”) now files a ...

Excerpt: ...rimination (FEHA); (2) hostile work environment (FEHA); (3) retaliation (FEHA); (4) failure to prevent discrimination, harassment and retaliation (FEHA); (5) retaliation (Labor Code §1102.5); (6) retaliation (Labor Code §98.6); (7) retaliation (Labor Code §6310; (8) wrongful termination; (9) sexual battery; (10) gender violence; (11) negligent supervision and retention; and (12) intentional infliction of emotion distress. Plaintiff was employe...

Excerpt: ... damages. The Individual Defendants owned and operated Defendant Team MWB -LA, LLC (“MWB”). (Complaint, ¶ 17.) MWB operated the “Gym Sports Bar” in West Hollywood, California. (Id., ¶¶ 15-16.) MWB held a “California On -Sale General Public Premises [liquor] license.” (Id., ¶ 19.) The Gym Sports Bar rented space from Plaintiff. (Declaration of Richard Schmutzler, ¶ 2.) MWB closed the Gym Sports Bar during the pandemic, purportedly...

Excerpt: ...ng a 2022 Ford Explorer vehicle. Plaintiff alleges that the warranty contract contained various warranties, including but not limited to the bumper-bumper warranty, powertrain warranty, emission warranty, etc. Plaintiff alleges that the defects and nonconformities to the warranty manifested themselves during the applicable warranty period, including but not limited to, transmission defects and infotainment defects, among other defects and non -co...

Excerpt: ...N On May 22, 2023, Plaintiff Ana I. Rodrguez (Plaintiff) filed her complaint against Defendants Zoraida Rodriguez and Carlos Castro -Almedia (Defendants). Carlos was personally served with the complaint on June 28, 2023. Zoraida was personally served with the complaint on June 30, 2023. Defendants had 30 days to respond to the complaint. On July 31, 2023, Jonathan Leavitt from the law firm Grant Shenon contacted Plaintiff's counsel on behalf of Z...

Excerpt: ...has moved for an order disqualifying the counsel of Defendants Henry Martinez and Veronica Martinez. Plaintiff argues that Defendants' counsel, Randall M. Awad, should be disqualified from representing Defend ants' because Awad is ineligible to practice law in the State of California. Plaintiff's counsel sent a letter to Awad on January 19, 2024, notifying him that Plaintiff's counsel had discovered that Awad was no longer eligible to practice la...

Excerpt: ...tiff”) and Defendant Background Images, LLC agreed to lease equipment two defending for a period between August 18, 2022, through November 18, 2022. Defendant agreed to make payments under the agreement but later failed t o do so thereby breaching the agreement. On May 31, 2024, Plaintiff filed the operative Complaint for breach of contract and common counts. Plaintiff moved for default to be entered against the Defendant on July 24, 2023, the ...

Excerpt: ...ontract action. Plaintiff alleges that he found and returned Defendant's lost dog and filed this action to recover the promised reward. The facts stated here are taken from the allegations in Plaintiff's Complaint. In July 2019, Defendant announced on social media that he had been burglarized and his dog was stolen. Defendant offered a reward of $30,000.00 for the return of his dog. Plaintiff found and returned Defendant's dog, but Defendant did ...

Excerpt: ...s action arises from a transaction to acquire the rights to a feature film. Plaintiff Stephen Snyder (Plaintiff) sued Defendants James Cardwell, James Cummings, Dweller, LLC, Monty the Dog Productions, Inc., Big Movie, LLC, Leonard Maurice Foley II, and Mark Styslinger for fraudulently inducing Plaintiff into executing an Acquisition and Release Agreement where the Defendants acquired all rights, entitlements, controls and all other interests whi...

Excerpt: ...filed a motion to quash service of the summons and complaint, contending California courts lack personal jurisdiction over it, on 7/28/23, setting the hearing for 1/30/24. The motion seeks alternative relief dismissing the action pursuant to the doctrine of forum non conveniens. On 10/17/23, Defendant, Brand Energy Infrastructure Services of Puerto Rico filed a joinder to the motion. On 10/19/23, Defendant, AES Puerto Rico, Inc. and AES Puerto Ri...

Excerpt: ...ect rather than in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an employment action. On February 16, 2024, Defendant Jobsource Downey, Inc. filed a motion to withdraw its admissions to Plaintiff Jasson Reyes Lopez's requests for admission nos. 2, 4, 6, 12, 14- 16, and 19-22. In that Motion, Defendant's agents , Carmen Ruiz and Stephany Torres, indicate that they incorrectly admitted these requests. Their declarations state that “The responses ...

Excerpt: ...tudio Enterprises, Inc. (“WB Studio”) as Manager of Food Service Operations in July 2021. Plaintiff's supervisor was Director of Food Services Steve Caloca (“Caloca”). In February 2022, Plaintiff complained to human resources that Caloca was creating a hostile work environment. After making the complaint, Caloca undermined Plaintiff's relationships with the rest of the staff, ignored her ideas, excluded her from important discussions, gav...

Excerpt: ...roup, LLC (erroneously sued as Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc.) and TMCHB, Inc. dba Huntington Beach Harley-Davidson (erroneously sued as The Motorcycle Company, LLC) move for an order sealing portions of the Declaration of Leah Orloff in support of Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment or, in t\ he alternative, Motion for Summary Adjudication (“Orloff Declaration”\ ). The Court notes that the amount of material now sought to be sealed ...

Excerpt: ...: 1. Portions of paragraph 32 of Plaintiff's Complaint as set forth below: "so as to justify an award of punitive damages against Defendants in an amount according to proof," 2. Portions of paragraph 37 of Plaintiff's Complaint as set forth below: "so as to justify an award of exemplary or punitive damages against Defendants in an amount according to proof at trial." 3. Portions of paragraph 45 of Plaintiff's Complaint as ...

Excerpt: ...ode section 7031, and money had and received. On October 29, 2021, Vazgen Hakopian filed his Answer to the Complaint. On November 12, 2021, Vazgen Hakopian filed his Verified Cross - Complaint against Ari Chazanas, Lotus West Properties, Inc., Demetra Chazanas, and Demetra Design Corp. On June 24, 2022, the Court ordered Vazgen Hakopian to provide initial discovery responses to certain form interrogatories, special interrogatories, and requests f...

Excerpt: ...deh's motion for terminating sanctions and entered default against Defendant Schuster Land Corp. The Court found willful discovery abuse when prior evidentiary and monetary sanctions were ineffective, and Defendant did not submit any pretrial documents for the Final Status Conference. On March 12, 2024, Defendant filed a motion to set aside/vacate default with a motion to seal. On March 15, 2024, Plaintiff filed a request for entry of default jud...

Excerpt: ...s order. BACKGROUND This is a disability rights case. On May 22, 2023, plaintiff Orlando Garcia (Plaintiff) filed this action against defendants Wayne Lee, Frances N. Lee (collectively, Defendant Lee),[1] Rayed Abdulnour, and Does 1 through 50, alleging causes of action for v iolations of the Unruh Civil Rights Act and the California Disabled Persons Act. On June 29, 2023, Defendant Lee answered the complaint. On February 21, 2024, Plaintiff move...

Excerpt: ...rom childhood sexual abuse. On August 25, 2023, Defendant filed a demurrer and a motion to strike. DEMURRER The parties' requests for judicial notice of trial court orders in other cases are denied. These orders are unpublished and nonprecedential. (See Santa Ana Hospital Medical Center v. Belshe (1997) 56 Cal.App.4th 819, 831 [“a written trial court ruling has no precedential value”].) A demurrer for sufficiency tests whether the complaint s...

Excerpt: ...rom childhood sexual abuse. On August 17, 2023, Defendant filed a demurrer and a motion to strike. DEMURRER The parties' requests for judicial notice of trial court orders in other cases are denied. These orders are unpublished and nonprecedential. (See Santa Ana Hospital Medical Center v. Belshe (1997) 56 Cal.App.4th 819, 831 [“a written trial court ruling has no precedential value”].) A demurrer for sufficiency tests whether the complaint s...

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: ...airfax”), and Greenhouse WeHo, LLC (“WeHo”) (collectively, “Defendants”) move for this Court to vacate and set aside the default and any judgment taken against Defendants on the basis Defendants wer e never served process and therefore any default or judgment would be void as a matter of law. (Notice of Motion, pg. 1; C.C.P. §§473(d), 473.5; Rogers v. Silverman (1989) 216 Cal.App.3d 1114.) Background On August 22, 2023, Plaintiffs Ben...

Excerpt: ...2) special interrogatories, set one, and (3) demand for identification and inspection of documents, set one, on plaintiff Martha Melgar ("Plaintiff Melgar") on October 25, 2023. After sending a meet and confer letter regarding the lack of responses, Plaintiff Melgar has failed to serve responses to date. Defendant therefore seeks an order compelling her to respond, without objections, to the outstanding discovery and to pay sanctions. Plaintiff M...

Excerpt: ...dant of statements of damages sought by Garrett and Birky on May 20, 2022. On September 22, 2022, the clerk entered Defendant's default. On August 4, 2023, the Court dismissed the Doe defendants without prejudice at Plaintiffs' request. On April 23, 2024, Plaintiffs filed requests for Court judgment to be heard on May 2, 2024. PARTIES' REQUESTS Garrett asks the Court to enter a default judgment against Defendant and award Garrett $669,595.02, con...

Excerpt: ...e by's International. On July 5, 2023 the parties represented to the court that a settlement agreement had been signed. On December 20, 2023 this court denied Kaplan's motion to enforce settlement on the grounds that Elaine Cohen had not signed the agreement. Kaplan filed a Third Amended Cross -Complaint (TACC) on January 26, 2024, adding claims for breach of settlement agre ement, negligent misrepresentation and fraud against the Cohens and thei...

Excerpt: ... the bench trial by the parties filing the declarations of their respective witnesses, in lieu of direct examination, pursuant to stipulation. On April 8, 2024, Defendants filed an ex parte application for an order shortening time for hearing the above -referenced motion prior to the cross -examination portion of the trial scheduled to begin on April 15, 2024. CAG filed opposition. On April 9, 2024, after hearing oral argument, the Court grant ed...