Excerpt: ...nts Sunbridge Hallmark Health Services, LLC, d/b/a Playa Del Rey Center and Newgen Operations Management, LLC (joined by (1) defendant 300 S. Robertson Dialysis, LLC d/b/a U.S. Renal Care Westside Dialysis (substituted for fictitious Doe defendant 231) on November 15, 2023, and (2) defendant Niceto Lopez, M.D. (substituted for fictious Doe defendant 1) on November 16, 2023) RESPONDING PARTIES: Plaintiffs Drena M. Humphries, by and through her suc...

Excerpt: ...ant Paramount Pictures Corporation, Inc. RESPONDING PARTY: Plaintiff Dan Sackheim (1) Motion to Compel Further Responses to Form Interrogatories (2) Motion to Compel Further Responses to Requests for Production of Documents The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with each motion. MOTION TO COMPEL FURTHER RESPONSES TO FORM INTERROGATORIES Defendant Paramount Pictures Corporation, Inc. (“Defendant”) mo...

Excerpt: ...netary recovery.” Plaintiff has not yet prevailed in this action. Although plaintiff has entered into a settlement agreement stating that he prevailed, the court has not entered a judgment pursuant to that settlement agreement and plaintiff has not filed an independent action for breach of contract. Plaintiff cannot realize a net monetary recovery and recover attorney fees until the disposition of this action. Under the California Rules of Cour...

Excerpt: ... Nabulsi, individually and as trustee of the Walid M. Nabulsi Revocable Living Trust dated April 12, 2013, Mazen Nabulsi, and Azzam Nabulsi (1) Plaintiff's Motion for Attorney's Fees MOVING PARTIES: Defendants Isam Nabulsi, Adnan Nabulsi, Walid Nabulsi, individually and as trustee of the Walid M. Nabulsi Revocable Living Trust dated April 12, 2013, Mazen Nabulsi, and Azzam Nabulsi RESPONDING PARTY: Plaintiff Aladdin Nabulsi (2) Defendants' Motion...

Excerpt: ...N, LLC ) PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO COMPEL FURTHER RESPONSES TO FORM INTERROGATORIES FROM PLATINUM DUNES PRODUCTIONS MOVING PARTY: Defendant Paramount Pictures Corporation RESPONDING PARTY: Plaintiff Dan Sackheim (1) Motion to Compel Further Responses to Special Interrogatories from Plaintiff Dan Sackheim MOVING PARTY: Plaintiff Dan Sackheim RESPONDING PARTY: Defendant Skydance Television, LLC (2) Motion to Compel Further Responses to Form Interrogato...

Excerpt: ...NTS ) DEFENDNAT'S MOTION TO COMPEL YE QIU'S FURTHER RESPONSES TO REQUESTS FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS MOVING PARTY: Defendant Andrew Khun RESPONDING PARTIES: Plaintiffs Jing Du, Yu Bai, and Ye Qiu (1) Motion to Compel Further Responses to Special Interrogatories (2) Motion to Compel Yu Bai's Further Responses to Requests for Production (3) Motion to Compel Ye Qiu's Further Responses to Requests for Production The court considered the moving, omni...

Excerpt: ...to plaintiff's motion in limine no. 1, the court orders that the parties shall not make reference to, or introduce evidence of, the fact that entities and claims were once named or asserted in this action and subsequently dismissed. (Joint Stipulation Regarding Motions In Limine, filed November 30, 2023, p. 2.) Plaintiff's Motion in Limine No. 2 Plaintiff's motion in limine no. 2 seeks “to preclude Defendants from introducing evidence or refere...

Excerpt: ...C RESPONDING PARTY: Plaintiff Zooshoo, Inc. Motion to Compel Arbitration The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. DISCUSSION Defendants Joe Ko (“Ko”), Louisa Zhou (“Zhou”), Predicate Holdings, Inc. (“Predicate”), Studio 88 Holdings, Inc., f/k/a Predicate Holdings, Inc. (“Studio 88”), and J. Adams Fashion, LLC (“J. Adams”) (collectively, “Defendants”) move the court...

Excerpt: ...ODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS, SET TWO ) DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DEEM ADMITTED MATTERS SPECIFIED IN REQUESTS FOR ADMISSION ) DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO COMPEL RESPONSES TO SPECIAL INTERROGATORIES ) DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO COMPEL RESPONSES TO SPECIAL INTERROGATORIES MOVING PARTY: Plaintiff and cross-defendant Eric Choi RESPONDING PARTIES: Defendants and cross-complainants Elaine Kohn and Berndt Lohr-Schmidt (1) Motion to be Relieved from Waiver of Discovery Object...

Excerpt: ...EFENSES IN PHASE II OF BIFURCATED TRIAL ARE TO BE TRIED BY THE JURY OR THE COURT Order to Show Cause re: Whether any of Plaintiff's Causes of Action or Defendants' Affirmative Defenses in Phase II of Bifurcated Trial are to be Tried by the Jury or the Court On June 7, 2019, the court entered, pursuant to the stipulation of plaintiff CEP America- California, d/b/a Vituity (“Plaintiff”) and defendants Heritage Provider Network, Inc., Regal Medi...

Excerpt: ...TORIES FROM SKYDANCE TELEVISION, LLC ) PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO COMPEL FURTHER RESPONSES TO SPECIAL INTERROGATORIES FROM GENRE ARTS, INC. MOVING PARTY: Plaintiff Dan Sackheim RESPONDING PARTY: Defendant Potomac River Productions, Inc. (1) Motion to Compel Further Responses to Special Interrogatories from Potomac River Productions, Inc. MOVING PARTY: Plaintiff Dan Sackheim RESPONDING PARTY: Defendant Skydance Television, LLC (2) Motion to Compel Furt...

Excerpt: ...tion papers filed in connection with this motion. No reply papers were filed. The court notes that the proof of service attached to the opposition papers, filed on November 7, 2023, states that the opposition was served on defendant George H. Williams by email on that date, but does not state the email address to which the opposition was served. (Opp., p. 12, Proof of Service.) The court has exercised its discretion to consider the opposition pap...

Excerpt: ...court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE The court denies plaintiffs Adela Sanchez and Livia Larios's request for judicial notice, filed on November 14, 2023, as an improper attempt to introduce new evidence in reply. (Jay v. Mahaffey (2013) 218 Cal.App.4th 1522, 1537 [“new evidence is not permitted with reply papers”].) DISCUSSION Plaintiffs Adela Sanchez and ...

Excerpt: ...defendant Eduardo Luna RESPONDING PARTIES: Defendants BJD Services, LLC, Dawn Kuykendall, Jerilyn Rivetti Kuykendall, Brian McWilliams, Rodney Owens, Villa Patrician Home Owner's Association, Inc., and Villa Patrician Home Owner's Association, Inc. (1) Demurrer to Cross‐Complaint (2) Motion to Strike Answer and Cross‐Complaint The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with the demurrer and the motion to...

Excerpt: ...ity Phase from Damages Phase at Trial The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. DISCUSSION Defendant City of Los Angeles (“Defendant”) moves the court for an order bifurcating trial in this action and, specifically, requests an order “that the trial of liability issues precede the trial of all issues related to damages and other relief claimed by” plaintiff Adam Hollands (“Plaint...

Excerpt: ... Arbitration The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. EVIDENTIARY OBJECTIONS The court sustains defendant Citiguard, Inc.'s evidentiary objection, filed on November 13, 2023, to the article filed by plaintiff Tennia Taylor as Exhibit 1 to the reply papers. (Jay v. Mahaffey (2013) 218 Cal.App.4th 1522, 1537.) DISCUSSION Plaintiff Tennia Taylor (“Plaintiff”) moves for an order vacating ...

Excerpt: ...nt Nissan North America, Inc. RESPONDING PARTY: Plaintiff Matthew Guerra (1) Motion to Compel Arbitration and Stay Proceedings MOVING PARTY: Plaintiff Matthew Guerra RESPONDING PARTY: Unopposed (2) Motion to Compel Further Responses to Requests for Production of Documents The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with the motion to compel arbitration. The court considered the moving papers filed in connecti...

Excerpt: ...W. Howe Partners, Inc. RESPONDING PARTY: Unopposed Motion for Determination of Good Faith Settlement The court considered the moving papers filed in connection with this motion. No opposition papers were filed. DISCUSSION Defendants and cross-complainants Carl William Howe and C.W. Howe Partners, Inc. (the “Howe Defendants”) move the court for an order determining that the settlement entered into by and between the Howe Defendants, on one han...

Excerpt: ...GMENT OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, SUMMARY ADJUDICATION MOVING PARTY: Defendant Northern California Mortgage Fund XIC RESPONDING PARTY: Plaintiff Rosa Maria Samples, as trustee of the Maria A. Gonzalez Living Trust and as executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Maria A. Gonzalez 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...

Excerpt: ...YDANCE MEDIA, LLC MOVING PARTY: Plaintiff Dan Sackheim RESPONDING PARTY: Defendant Amazon Studios, LLC (erroneously sued as Amazon Studios, Inc.) (1) Motion to Compel Further Responses to Special Interrogatories from Amazon Studios, Inc. MOVING PARTY: Plaintiff Dan Sackheim RESPONDING PARTY: Defendant Skydance Media, LLC (2) Motion to Compel Further Responses to Form Interrogatories from Skydance Media, LLC The court considered the moving, opposi...

Excerpt: ..., and Safeway, Inc. RESPONDING PARTY: Defendant Mondelez Global, LLC Motion to Compel Deposition of Person Most Qualified and Request for Sanctions The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. DISCUSSION Plaintiffs The Vons Companies, Inc., Albertsons Companies, Inc., and Safeway, Inc. (“Plaintiffs”) move the court for an order (1) compelling the deposition of the person most qualified fo...

Excerpt: ...ry Judgment or, in the Alternative, Summary Adjudication The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. JUDICIAL NOTICE The court denies defendant Star Ford Lincoln's request for judicial notice that was filed on November 3, 2023 (1) as an improper attempt to introduce new evidence in reply, and (2) because rulings from other Superior Court departments are irrelevant to the issues presented by ...

Excerpt: ...nt RESPONDING PARTY: Unopposed Motion for Determination of Good Faith Settlement The court considered the moving papers filed in connection with this motion. No opposition papers were filed. DISCUSSION Defendant and cross-complainant Core Construction and Development (“Core”) moves the court for an order determining that the settlement entered into by and between Core, on the one hand, and plaintiffs Greg Mooradian, Debra Mooradian, and the G...

Excerpt: ...NG PARTY: Plaintiff Radenko Milakovic Motion to Strike Third Amended Complaint The court considered the moving, opposition, and reply papers filed in connection with this motion. REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE The court denies plaintiff Radenko Milakovic's request for judicial notice because the matter that is the subject of his request is not a proper subject of judicial notice. (Evid. Code, § 452.) DISCUSSION Defendants David Glasser, individuall...

Excerpt: ...rbitration 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 Nissan North America, Inc.'s request for judicial notice. (Evid. Code, § 452, subd. (d).) The court grants plaintiff Jessica Ramirez's request for judicial notice. (Evid. Code, § 452, subd. (d).) DISCUSSION Defendant Nissan North America, Inc. (“Defendant”)...