Excerpt: ... Amended Complaint filed. 09/01/16: Second Amended Complaint filed. 02/06/23: Judgment entered for Defendants. STATEMENT OF FACTS Plaintiff alleged that Defendants breached their fiduciary duties to a limited liability company by giving an easement to an entity Defendants owned which benefited Defendants. Plaintiff moves to tax select costs identified in Defendant Leebove's memorandum of costs. TENTATIVE RULING: Plamtiffs Motion to Tax Costs is G...

Excerpt: ...as filed on August 23, 2022. Plaintiff alleges that the corporate Defendants allowed individual Defendant Pierre Williams to install a hidden camera in the women's restroom at Plaintiffs place of employment Defendant Apex Protection Service, Inc. moves for a determination of good faith settlement TENTATIVE RULING: Defendant Apex Protection Sewice, Ines motion for determination of good faith settlement is GuNTED. DISCUSSION: Defendant Apex Protect...

Excerpt: ...23 CASE HISTORY: 07 /01/20: Complaint filed. 09/21/20: Dismissal entered as to Defendant Urth Caffe Corporation. 03/10/22: First Amended Complaint filed. STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: This is a PAGA action for various Labor Code violations. Plamtiffs move for an order approving a proposed PAGA settlement TENTATIVE RULING: For all the reasons explained below, the Court finds that the proposed settlement is fair and reasonable and...

Excerpt: ...N PART with respect to the request for a broad exclusion order but GRANTED IN PART, in that the Court orders Plaintiff to identify in wr-ting the witnesses and exhibits she will be offering to demonstrate discrimination, harassment and/or retaliation allegedly suffered by Plaintiffs coworkers. Defendant's motion fails to identify the specific evidence it seeks to exclude so the Court cannot determine whether any evidence should be barred as irrel...

Excerpt: ...tter STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: This is an employment action that was filed on June 15, 2022. Plaintiff alleges that Defendants unlawfully withheld an employee's back pay and wrongfully terminated her in retaliation for contacting the Labor Commission. Defendant Leon Turner filed a Cross-Complainton September 12, 2022 against Cross-Defendant Teresa Trotter. Cross Defendant demurs to the Cross-Complaint in its entirety. TENTAT...

Excerpt: ...n 2013 Family Trust RESPONDING PARTY(S): Plaintiff George Adam Adanuan, individually and as Trustee of the George Adamian Living Trust CASE HISTORY: 09/12/22: Complaint filed. 04/18/23: First Amended Complaint filed. STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: This is a quiet title action. Plaintiff alleges that Defendants improperly foreclosed on a parcel of real property owned by Plaintiff through the use of a fraudulent deed of trust Defen...

Excerpt: ...D/OR PROCEEDINGS: This was a petition for writ of mandamus filed on December 20, 2020. Plaintiff now alleges through his First Amended Complaint filed on December 6, 2022, that Defendants engaged in a criminal conspiracy to illegally tow vehicles and force their owners to pay extortionate fees to retrieve the vehicles from impoundment Plaintiff alleges that he was personally in] ured and his civil rights violated when his vehicle was allegedly un...

Excerpt: ...STORY: 07 /31/20: Complaint filed (this case) 12/11/20: First Amended Complaint filed (this case) 04/18/22: Complaint filed (consolidated case) 07/11/22: Consolidation ordered. STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: This is a personal injury action. Plaintiffs allege that a gas line in the house they rented exploded because the plastic gas pipe which was installed in the house was defective. Plamtiffs bring a petition to appmve a minor's...

Excerpt: .../a Regents Point— Windcrest and Humangood STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: This is an elder abuse action that was filed on Februaty 6, 2023. Plaintiffs allege that Shirin Amighi, who is elderly, was a short-term resident of a nursing home operated by Defendants while recovering from surgery for a fractured hip sustained from a fall at her home. Plaintiffs allege that, during her stay, Amighi suffered a second fracture to the same...

Excerpt: ...Cross-Petitioners The Enterprise; Gilad Lumer, individually and as the Designated Family Representative of Family 1; Harry Lumer, Sr., individually and as the Designated Family Representative of Family 2; Stuart Rubin, individually and as a Representative of Family 4; and David Wank, individually and as the Representative of Family 5. 05/21/19: Petition to Vacate or Alter Arbitration Award filed. 06/28/19: Cross-Petition to Confirm Arbitration Aw...

Excerpt: ...ded Complaint, filed 22: 201 S: Plaintiff alleged that he purchased a new 2011 Kia Optima ivhich had serious engine defects. Plaintiff alleges multiple violations of the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act and fraudulent omission by Defendant in concealing the engine defects Plaintiff now mowe for an award of attorney's fees, costs: and expenses pursuant to a settlement _ TENTATIVE RULING: Plaintiffs Motion for Attomey's Fees, Costs, and Exrrnses ...

Excerpt: ...n lead case. 06/14/21: First Amended Complaint filed in lead case. 09/13/21: Second Amended Complaint filed in lead case. 06/07/22: Complaint filed by Plaintiff Nancy Allen in this case. STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: This is an action for breach of contract, fraud, product liability, and negligence arising from a defective stair lift. Defendants demur to the Complaint filed by Nancy Allen in its entirety as it pertams to Lloyd K...

Excerpt: ...ESPONDING PARTY(S): Defendants/Cross-Complainants George Zakharia and Hoda Zakharia CASE HISTORY:  10/14/15: Complaint filed.  11/16/15: Cross-Complaint filed.  04/23/18: Compulsory Cross-Complaint filed.  06/07/18: First Amended Cross-Complaint filed. STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: This is an action to quiet title by adverse possession. Plaintiff/Cross-Defendant Paul Krzemuski moves for summary judgment on the first ...

Excerpt: ...FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: Plaintiffs, a podiatrist and an ENT doctor, filed this action on July 2, 2021, alleging they were orally expelled from membership in Defendant Avanguard Surgery Center without receiving a written buyout notice, contrary to the terms of Avanguard's operating agreement. Defendants Avanguard and its manager, Gary Bellman, move for summary judgment or summary adjudication of all causes of action TENTATIVE RULING: Defendants'...

Excerpt: ... for employment discrimination that was filed on November 2, 2021. Plaintiff alleges that she was terminated for attendance issues related to her disabilities of debilitating menstrual cramps and epilepsy. Plaintiff is claiming damages for emotional distress, stress, anxiety, depression, menstrual pain or other abnormalities associated with menstruation, and epilepsy. Defendant issued a subpoena to Kaiser Permanente to obtain all records from Pla...

Excerpt: ...mployment discrimination that was filed on January 16, 2020. Plaintiff alleges that she was subjected to extensive discrimination over a period of more than 30 years based on her national origin, gender, age, and disability. Plaintiff pursued the same claims within the Civil Service Commission which denied her claim. Plaintiff then filed an appeal of the denial to the Civil Service Commission on April 7, 2021. The hearing on the appeal is pending...

Excerpt: ...2/05/21: Second Amended Complaint filed.  04/12/21: Third Amended Complaint filed.  01/17/23: Fourth Amended Complaint filed. STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: Plaintiffs allege that they were peacefully protesting outside Defendants' home when Defendants conspired to compel them to leave by having Defendant David Lacey threaten Plaintiffs with a handgun when they rang Defendants' doorbell. Plaintiffs also allege that Defendan...

Excerpt: ...� 10/13/21: Answer filed.  2/21/23: Plaintiffs' instant motion for judgment on the pleadings filed.  03/17/23: Defendants filed amended answer. STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: This is an action, filed on January 27, 2021, for breach of a rental lease contract, breach of the implied warranty of habitability, fraud, and negligence. Plaintiffs move for judgment on the pleadings on defendant's amended answer. TENTATIVE RULING: P...

Excerpt: ...mployment discrimination that was filed on January 16, 2020. Plaintiff alleges that she was subjected to extensive discrimination over a period of more than 30 years based on her national origin, gender, age, and disability. Plaintiff pursued the same claims within the Civil Service Commission which denied her claim. Plaintiff then filed an appeal of the denial to the Civil Service Commission on April 7, 2021. The hearing on the appeal is pending...

Excerpt: ..., 2022. Plaintiffs Surgical Needs, LLC (Surgical Needs) and Nicholas Loloee (Loloee) (collectively, Plaintiffs) allege Defendants Catherine Llavanes (Defendant) and Century Park Ambulatory Surgery Center, LLC (Century Park) (collectively, Defendants) breached the operating agreement with Plaintiffs regarding a $50,000 investment from Surgical Needs and a $30,000 loan from Loloee. Plaintiffs allege Defendants received and retained money and conver...

Excerpt: ...intiff Maria Dolores Juarez STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: In her complaint filed on November 5, 2021, Plaintiff alleges she entered into a loan agreement with Century Mortgage secured by the Property through a Deed of Trust. In 2019, Plaintiff began having trouble making her mortgage payments and applied for a loan modification with PHH. Plaintiff continued to follow up with attempts for a loan modification, but PHH could not pr...

Excerpt: ...l, Inc. 01/17 /23: First Amended Complaint filed. STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: This is toxic tort case. Plaintiff alleges that he was exposed to various toxic chemicals while working in construction. Defendant Masterchem Industries LLC moves for an order continuing the current trial date of September 19, 2023, and all related dates. TENTATIVE RULING: Defendant's motion to continue trial is GRANTED. The Final Status Conference s...

Excerpt: ...raceli Garcia Diaz CASE HISTORY: 08/24/19: Complaint filed. 09/27/21 : Answer by Defendant American Honda Motor Co., Inc. filed. 08/23/22: The Court denied Defendant American Honda Motor Co.: Inc.' s opposed Motion to Compel Arbitration. 10/31 /22: Motion to Strike and Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings for the Fourth Cause of Action by Defendant American Honda Motor Co. Inc. filed. 03/27/23: Oppositions to Motion to Strike and Motion for Judgm...

Excerpt: ...0: First Amended Complaint filed 03/04/22: Second Amended Complaint filed STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: This is an action in real property. Plaintiff and Defendant Richard Castro are co-owners of a piece of real properv as tenants in common. Plamtiff seeks a sale of the property and an accounting of all sums for upkeep, maintenance, mortgage, tax, and insurance payments on the property. Plamtiffs move to enforce an oral settleme...

Excerpt: ...Y: 11/24/20: Complaint filed. 04/09/21: First Amended Complaint filed. STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: This is a wrongful termination action. Plamtiffs allege age and disability discrimination, harassment and retaliation and various Labor Law claims and related causes of action. Plaintiffs move for leave to file a second amended complaint TENTATIVE RULING: Plamtiffs' Motion for Leave to File a Second Amended Complaint is GRANTED. ...