Excerpt: ...d Brett Cyprus of East End Properties, Inc. and defendant David Darwish entered into a joint venture to purchase a foreclosed property for later profit upon resale. Plaintiff further alleges that defendant David Darwish falsely represented to William Little, who owned and controlled plaintiff, that Darwish and the other defendants had not been able to find a buyer for the property and that, because of the decline in property values and the Darwis...

Excerpt: ...rrer is to the entire First Amended Complaint: 1. Wrongful Death 2. Survivor's Action 3. Negligence 4. Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress* *The 4 th cause of action is not listed in the caption of the Second Amended Complaint, but appears in the body. RELIEF REQUESTED IN MOTION TO STRIKE: An order striking allegations regarding and the prayer for punitive damages contained in the Second Amended Complaint. Specifically, Primestor seeks to ...

Excerpt: ...f Hong Gan, in pro per DEMURRER (CCP § 430.10, et seq.) TENTATIVE RULING: Defendant San Gabriel Valley Medical Center, LP's (1) Demurrer to Complaint and (2) Motion to Have Plaintiff Declared a Vexatious Litigant are CONTINUED TO APRIL 10, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. in Department 25 at the SPRING STREET COURTHOUSE to allow Plaintiff an opportunity to respond to documents presented in Defendant's reply papers. Plaintiff must file and serve any responsive...

Excerpt: ... party submits on the tentative, the party's email must include the case number and must identify the party submitting on the tentative. If the parties do not submit on the tentative, they should arrange to appear in-person or remotely. TENTATIVE RULING DEPARTMENT 32 HEARING DATE February 22, 2021 CASE NUMBER 20STCV40448 MOTION Demurrer to Complaint MOVING PARTY Defendant City of Maywood OPPOSING PARTY None MOTION Defendant City of Maywood (“De...

Excerpt: ...lage, Inc. (“Plaintiff”) filed the instant action for breach of contract and common counts against Defendant Ch Worldwide, Inc. (“Defendant Ch Robinson”) and others. Defendant Ch Robinson filed the instant Demurrer to the Complaint on April 15, 2020. Thereafter, the case was reassigned to this limited jurisdiction Court. Plaintiff filed an opposition to the Demurrer on November 20, 2020 and Defendant Ch Robinson replied on February 11, 20...

Excerpt: ... party submits on the tentative, the party's email must include the case number and must identify the party submitting on the tentative. If the parties do not submit on the tentative, they should arrange to appear in‐person or remotely. TENTATIVE RULING DEPARTMENT 32 HEARING DATE February 22, 2021 CASE NUMBER 20STCV44397 MOTION Demurrer to Complaint MOVING PARTY Defendant Knight Transportation, Inc. OPPOSING PARTY Plaintiff Alfonso Herrera MOTI...

Excerpt: ...s Aldo Mayorga and Perla Johana Bonilla filed this action against Defendants Celco Construction Services, Inc. (erroneously and collectively sued as “Celco Construction Services Incorporated” and “Celco Construction Inc.”) (“Defendant”) and Victor Enrique Narvaez Ramirez arising from an October 23, 2019 motor vehicle collision. On January 8, 2021, Defendant filed an Answer asserting fourteen affirmative defenses. On January 19, 2021, ...

Excerpt: ...eadows Homeowners Association (“Plaintiff”) and against Defendants Boniface C. Nwagbo and Jane Doe Nwagbo (“Defendants”) in Case No. CV2012-0471. The default judgment was entered in the principal sum of $2,261.10, attorney's fees in the amount of $1,100.00, and costs in the amount of $518.49. (Motion, RJN, Exh. 2.) On April 14, 2017, this Court entered judgment based on the sister-state judgment in Case No. CV2012-0471. On June 12, 2018, ...

Excerpt: ...e default and default judgment FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND: Plaintiff H Cubed Properties alleges that defendants Duane Jason Thielen, Fortune Foreclosures, LLC and Flipping on Demand Inverted Wholesaling, LLC, identifying themselves as nationally and internationally recognized experts in real estate investing, began in late 2016 to solicit plaintiff H Cubed Properties offering investment properties in Pennsylvania for purchase, rehabilitati...

Excerpt: ...sponses to Requests for Admission, Set One from Cross-Defendant Min Shang Ko is GRANTED. Defendant/Cross-Complainant Fairview East, LLC's Motion to Compel Further Responses to Form Interrogatories, Set One from Cross-Defendant Min Shang Ko is GRANTED. Defendant/Cross-Complainant Fairview East, LLC's Motion to Compel Further Responses to Form Interrogatories, Set One from Plaintiff KV Electric, Inc. is GRANTED. I. DEFENDANT/CROSS‐COMPLAINANT FAI...

Excerpt: ... 2014 Toyota Tacoma. Plaintiff objected on the grounds that the demand for inspection was unreasonably burdensome, not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence and therefore oppressive, calculated to vex, harass and annoy, and requires Plaintiff incur unnecessary attorneys' fees. Plaintiff's objection also states that Defendant's insurer already paid for the damage and did not represent that it has no images of the ve...

Excerpt: ...between Defendants and their counsel, and to destroy all copies, is granted. Defendants' request the Court order the emails inadmissible as evidence is denied without prejudice. Defendants Eric Howard (“Howard”) and Sheila Barbarino (“Barbarino”) (collectively “Defendants”) moves to compel Silver Lake Spine Institute (“Silver Lake”), HB Surgery Center, Inc. (“HBSC”), Brendan Bakir (“Bakir”), and Pacific Sixteen, LLC (“Pa...

Excerpt: ...ees and Notice of Posting Jury Fees, and to order the case be tried to the Court on 6/21/21 as currently set without a jury. RULING: The hearing will be continued. Plaintiff's Request for Judicial Notice is granted. This action arises out of Defendant's alleged legal malpractice. Plaintiff sustained personal injuries due to a trip and fall incident that occurred on 12/7/12. Plaintiff alleges that Defendant, an attorney she hired, failed to file a...

Excerpt: ...Ambarachyan (“Ambarachyan”) alleges that he is an investor who was defrauded by Defendants Sona Chukhyan (“Chukhyan”) and George Plavjian (“Plavjian”), as well as their co-conspirators KSR Realty, Inc. (“KSR”), Reta Narkaz, Ruzana Badeer (“Badeer”), Kiane Shabazian (“Shabazian”), and Mariam Kakoian (“Kakoian”). Ambarachyan alleges that Kakoian was the owner of property located at 1737 Bel Aire Dr. in Glendale and that ...

Excerpt: ...matter is improperly classified. Plaintiff's Motion for Consolidation of Cases is DENIED. REQUESTED RELIEF: Reclassify Case No. 16P04843 from Limited to Unlimited Jurisdiction CONSOLIDATE the following cases: Case No. Plaintiff(s) Defendant(s) EC 065616 Poonsook Brainangkul Select Portfolio, The Wolf Firm Bank of New York Mellon, Volantis Global, Inc. 16P04843 Volantis Global, Inc. Poonsook Brainagkul Request to Procedural Requirements of Motion ...

Excerpt: ...rs at Lloyd's, London Plaintiff East West Bank Relief Requested: Plaintiff's Motion Summary judgment in favor of plaintiff East West and against defendant In the alternative, summary adjudication of issues Defendant's Motion Summary judgment as to plaintiff East West Bank's First Amended Complaint In the alternative, summary adjudication as to both causes of action against moving defendant Causes of Action from First Amended Complaint 1) Breach o...

Excerpt: ...reach of written contract; (2) account stated; (3) open book account; and (4) quantum meruit. On January 7, 2021, default was entered as to Defendants LW Asset Management, LLC and Lee Wong. On January 19, 2021, DOES 1 through 10 were dismissed without prejudice from this case. On January 27, 2021, Defendant Lee Wong, in propria persona, filed the instant motion to set aside entry of default. ANALYSIS: I. Motion to Set Aside Entry of Default A. Le...

Excerpt: ...SHIFTING DISCOVERY REFEREE COSTS TO DEFENDANT LYFT, INC. Background On July 22, 2019, Plaintiff Chijoke John Mayor Osuji (“Plaintiff”) filed the instant personal injury action against defendants Behzad Lahijani (”Lahijani”) and Lyft, Inc. (“Lyft”) arising out of a motor vehicle accident. On October 7, 2020, the Court conducted an informal discovery conference (IDC) with the parties, ordered the parties to continue meeting and conferri...

Excerpt: ...w & Culbertson, LLP (“Hinshaw”); and McGuire Woods, LLP (“McGuire Woods”). On November 5, 2018, Plaintiffs filed their second amended complaint (“SAC”). On January 22, 2019, the Court sustained Hinshaw's demurrer to the fourth and tenth causes of action without leave to amend and granted its motion to strike punitive damages. On October 5, 2020, the Court granted McGuire Woods' motion for determination of good faith settlement. On Oct...

Excerpt: ...iff Jeffrey Cancilla Responding Party: Court Receiver Carl G. Petta RELIEF REQUESTED: Finding that assets not subject to receivership estate Claim Priority SUMMARY OF FACTS: The Lead Case, No. EC 069174, is brought by American Money Group, Inc. and Gregg Knight as plaintiffs, which allege that beginning in January of 2016, defendant Ten Minute Title Loans Holding, LLC (“TMTL”) and plaintiffs entered into written Subscription Agreements whereb...

Excerpt: ...Ellensohn alleges that on June 9, 2015, plaintiff was traveling on Interstate 5 southbound approximately 100 feet north of Alameda Avenue in the City of Burbank, where a low hanging live and uncovered electrical wire was stretched across the freeway, hanging at such a height that it posed an unreasonable and foreseeable risk of contact by tall vehicles passing below. Plaintiff alleges that as he was approaching the site of the overhanging electri...

Excerpt: ...VICE:  Correct Address: Unknown. Respondent has not appeared in the action.  20 [Insurance Code § 10139.5(f)(2)]: OK. Served by certified mail on January 7, 2021. CASE HISTORY:  12/31/20: Petition for approval of transfer of structured settlement payment rights filed. STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS AND/OR PROCEEDINGS: Petitioner seeks court approval of a proposed transfer of structured settlement payments. TENTATIVE RULING: The Court finds...

Excerpt: ...set aside its denial. Petitioner also seeks a court order requiring the City to issue the CUP and “another other regulatory license.” (Pet., Prayer ¶ 1.) The City opposes the petition. The City's request for judicial notice (RJN) is granted. The Petition is DENIED. STATEMENT OF THE CASE On December 28, 2018, the City adopted an ordinance permitting cannabis businesses in certain zones of the City. (AR 8‐16.) The ordinance permits cannabis ...

Excerpt: ... sixth causes of action of Second Amended Complaint Sustain Demurrer to first through seventh causes of action of Second Amended Complaint CAUSES OF ACTION: from Second Amended Complaint 1) Violation of the Immigration Consultants Act/Conspiracy 2) Fraud--Intentional Misrepresentation/Conspiracy 3) Fraud—Fraudulent Concealment/Conspiracy 4) Breach of Fiduciary Duty 5) Violation of B & P Code section 17200 6) Accounting 7) Legal Malpractice SUMM...

Excerpt: ..., and 93 and Special Interrogatories 49, 61, and 62 to the extent the parties' disputes over those discovery requests were not resolved as set forth in the Joint Statement. The Motion to Seal is GRANTED IN PART as to Exhibits A, B-AA, and CC to the Howard Declaration. The Motion is DENIED IN PART as to Exhibit DD to the Howard Declaration. Defendants to give notice. If counsel do not submit on the tentative, they are strongly encouraged to appear...