Excerpt: ...04700030024004f0044[n Davis <004800560057004c005100 52[ RULING: Defendants' Motion for Reclassification of Action (Limited Jurisdiction) is DENIED. It is not clear from the pleadings, file and the showing made in the motion that the verdict in this case would necessarily result in a verdict below this court's jurisdictional amount. See Walker v. Superior Court(1991) 53 Cal.3d 257, 262; Ytuarte v. Superior Court (2005, 2 nd Dist.) 129 Cal.App.4th ...

Excerpt: ... of Non-Opposition to the Motion) RULING: [No opposition] Motion to Consolidate Actions: What is the status of the stipulation to consolidate being circulated among the parties? Have all parties in each case been served with notice of the motion? Specifically, are there any parties in the other case besides Anthony Jerry Hein, as plaintiff, and the defendants named in this action? UNOPPOSED Motion to Consolidate Actions is GRANTED because the cou...

Excerpt: ...Motion to Compel Plaintiff's Further Responses to Pacific Bell Telephone's Request for Admission, Set No. One, is GRANTED. Plaintiff Kevin Roberts is ordered to serve further non-evasive responses to Requests Nos. 14-19, without objection, which directly respond to the requests. The court does not find appropriate or credible a response that plaintiff lacks information concerning whether he himself has evidence concerning the subject issues. Mone...

Excerpt: ...Party: Defendants Tap House Grill Westmont, Inc., Robert Ward, Tap House Grill Oswego, LLC, and Tap House Gill Plainfield, LLC RULING: Motion to Set Aside Court Order of July 14, 2017 is denied. There is no showing of “excusable” neglect, and no indication that counsel intends to seek relief under the mandatory provisions of CCP § 473(b). The motion also fails to establish that this motion, filed more than two months after the court's July 1...

Excerpt: ... Star Cinemas, LLC RULING: Motion for leave to amend plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint is GRANTED. Plaintiff has failed to lodge the proposed pleading separately and therefore is ordered to provide a separate, signed, copy of the proposed pleading by 4:00 p.m. this date, at which time the Second Amended Complaint will be deemed filed and served on the current defendant. RELIEF REQUESTED: File a Second Amended Complaint CONTENTS OF MOTION: (CRC...

Excerpt: ...ation System, Inc.'s “Joinder” to Demurrer of Defendant Citibank is denied to the extent said “joinder” seeks that this court grant affirmative relief in favor of defendant MERS, as opposed to urging the court to sustain defendant Citibank's demurrer in favor of Citibank. The “joinder” fails to cite any legal authority under which a party may join in the subject motions seeking relief in that party's favor. The court also is reluctant...

Excerpt: ...e message and emailed correspondence from defendant. The parties are ordered to meet and confer in good faith in the hallway, plaintiff is ordered to prepare the required declaration under CCP § 430.41 that sets forth the results of the meet and confer, and the parties are then ordered to return to the courtroom with the declaration. Defendant Samuel's UNOPPOSED Demurrer to Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint is OVERRULED as the third cause of a...

Excerpt: ...tion, Inc. dba Reliance Company RULING: CCP 437c(g): Material facts which do or do not create a triable issue of controversy: Motion of Cobalt Construction Company for Summary Adjudication on the First Amended Cross-Complaint is GRANTED. Adjudiction No. 1: As a matter of law pursuant to the terms of the General Provisions, Zastrow Construction, Inc. owes Cobalt Construction Company a duty to immediately accept the defense of Cobalt Construction, ...