Excerpt: ...fendants Folmer and Kearney: First, to the extent that plaintiff seeks to compel further responses from defendants Corrine Folmer and Kevin Kearney, plaintiff has not shown that she ever served these defendants with discovery requests or that they provided inadequate responses to the requests. Therefore, there is no basis for her to compel them to provide further responses to discovery, as they were apparently never served with any discovery requ...

Excerpt: ... by Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 1.16, subdivision (e). Mr. Hoppe attests to having provided the contents of the file as requested by his client with the exception of a February 14, 2023 email from Jeff Williams, in-house counsel for Zenith, and emails sent after his representation of TJ & Sons ended on March 1, 2023. (Hoppe Decl. "1 9-10.) The author of the emails, Mr. Williams, asserted the work product privilege regarding the February 1...

Excerpt: ...prior to the subject incident to the present. To deny both parties' requests for monetary sanctions against each other. Plaintiffs shall serve further responses within 10 days of the date of service of this order. Explanation: Request for Production number 18 requests "A true and complete copy of all WRITINGS related to disability benefits received by Mr. Shire, including, but not limited to, the applications for such benefits, medical reports, d...

Excerpt: ...ssues the parties have not agreed to arbitrate." (Garlach v. Sports Club Co. (2012) 209 Cal.App.4th 1497, 1505) "Thus, in ruling on a motion to compel arbitration, the court must first determine whether the parties actually agreed to arbitrate the dispute." (Mendez v. Mid-Wilshire Health Care Center (2013) 220 Cal.App.4th 534, 541.) The party moving to compel arbitration bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence the existence...

Excerpt: ...red by the agreement. The party opposing the motion must then prove by a preponderance of evidence that a ground for denial of the moton exists (e.g., fraud, unconscionability, etc.) (Hotels Nevada v. LA. Pacific Center, Inc. (2006) 144 Cal.App.4th 754, 758.) Written Agreement Unless there is a dispute over authenticity, the mere recitation of the terms is suffcient for a party to move to compel arbitration. (Sprunk v. Prisma LLC (2017) 14 Cal.Ap...

Excerpt: ...iv. Proc., S 2023.010, subd. (g); 2030.290, subd. (c); 2031.300, subd. (c).) To strike the complaint and dismiss the action. To grant and to award monetary sanctions in the total amount of $735 against plaintiff David Herrera and his attorney of record, Justin B. Toobi, jointly and severally, payable within 20 days of the date of this order, with the time to run from the service of this minute order by the clerk. To grant and to award monetary sa...

Excerpt: ...be (1990) 219 cal.App.3d 1527, 1529; Nicholson v. Barab (1991) 233 cal.App.3d 1671, 1681.) The reply brief makes clear that plaintiff seeks summary judgment based on the parties' oral agreement, only, and not based on that agreement plus the email he sent to defense counsel later in the day after the mediation. However, this only complicates the issue, since the complaint includes a PAGA claim, and plaintiff's counsel's email included a term allo...

Excerpt: ...lanation below), with the time to run from the clerk's service of the minute order adopting this Tentative Ruling. Explanation: In this partition action, an interlocutory judgment issued on December 22, 2020, which ordered the subject property to be sold by the appointed referee, with the proviso that $20,000 of the sale proceeds would be impounded to cover later costs of partition. A further order was entered on February 3, 2022, confirming the ...

Excerpt: ...ute order by the clerk. To deny the motion for relief from sanctions. Explanation: Defendants Springs SPE, LP (erroneously sued as The Springs), and Apartment Management Consultants, LLC (collectively "defendants") generally demur to the eighth cause of action, for public nuisance, for failure to state facts to support the cause of action. The present demurrer is the third challenge to the same cause of action, based on the same deficiencies alle...

Excerpt: ...son, the court considers the likelihood that the moving party will prevail on the merits at trial, and the interim harm that the moving party is likely to sustain the injunction were denied as compared to the harm that the opposing party is likely to suffer if the preliminary injunction were issued. (IT Corp. v. County of Imperial (1983) 35 Cal.3d 63, 69-70.) In considering these factors, the court "balances the relative hardships." (Ibid.) The s...

Excerpt: ...lease and breach of guarantee. The first cause for breach of lease is brought against Daphne's Restaurant-Fresno, lnc„ and the cause of achon for breach of guaranty is brought against defendants Mosa Gazali and Husein Alamoodi. "A cause of action for breach of contract requires proof of the following elements: (1) existence of the contract; (2) plaintiff's performance or excuse for nonperformance; (3) defendant's breach; and (4) damages to plai...

Excerpt: ...0 days' leave to file a second amended answer. The time in which the first amended answer can be amended will run from service by the clerk of the minute order. All new allegations in the second amended answer are to be set in boldface type. To deny the motion to strike affirmative defenses 1-7, 9-25, and 27-28, as moot in light of the ruling on the demurrer. To deny the motion to strike the request for attorney's fees due to a failure to provide...

Excerpt: ...the order entered by the court on the request for pretrial discovery conference. To grant plaintiffs motions to compel defendant to provde further responses to the disputed form interrogatories, special interrogatories, and requests for production of documents. Defendant shall provide supplemental responses, without objections, within 10 days of the date of service of this order. To grant plaintiff's request for monetary sanctions against defenda...

Excerpt: ...es, Set One, and Request for Production of Documents, Set One. The truth of all matters specified in the Request for Admissions, Set One, are deemed admitted. (Code Civ. Proc., S 2033.280, subd. (bj.) To impose reasonable sanctions in the sum of $3,001.50 against JOM and in favor of plaintiffs Miguel Lopez and Maria Lopez, to be paid to plaintiffs' counsel within 30 days of service of the order by the clerk. To grant the motion to compel depositi...

Excerpt: ...g the following factors (evaluated as of the time of the settlement): 1) a rough approximation of plaintiffs' total recovery and the settlor's proportionate liability; 2) the amount paid in settlement; 3) a recognition that a settlor should pay less in settlement than if found liable after a trial; 4) the allocation of the settlement proceeds among plaintiffs; 5) the settlor's financial condition and insurance policy limits, if any; and 6) eviden...

Excerpt: ... defend the action, the court is empowered to grant relief from a default. (Code Civ. Proc„ S 473.5.) Defendant Bhupinder Singh ("Defendant") argues that he was never served the summons in this case. Though the filing of a proof of service creates a rebuttable presumption that service was proper (Lebel v. Mai (2012) 210 Cal.App.4th 1154, 1163), "a declaration of non-service if credited by the trial court can rebut the presumption of proper serv...

Excerpt: ...intiffs attach an email from Mr. Rosado wherein he asks counsel to use a new address. However, as the court instructed counsel in the Tentative Ruling issued on April 18, 2023, when service to Mr. Rosado is made by mail, plaintiffs must include service at his address of record, even if they also wish to serve him at a different address. It is the duty of the litigant (including a self-representing litigant) to serve all parties with a written not...

Excerpt: ...laremont Capital Partners, LLC dba Ocean Grown Extracts dba Evidence ("Claremont LLC"), and four new causes of action relating to these parties' interference with the business and contractual relations between plaintiff and defendant Latchkey Pioneers, LLC ("Pioneers"). Plaintiff has met the formalities required of a motion to amend the Complaint, and has given due notice to all appearing defendants. Motions for leave to amend pleadings are direc...

Excerpt: ...for judgment on the pleadings is a nonstatutory but well-established procedure with the purpose and effect of a general demurrer. Because the motion is, in effect, a general demurrer, the same rules apply. Thus, to prevail on a motion for judgment on the pleadings, a defendant must show a complaint fails to state a cause of acton. (Sofas v. Bank of America (1985) 172 Cal.App.3d 583, 586, citations omitted.) "'A motion for judgment on the pleading...

Excerpt: ...ancement payment to plaintff Eric Garcia is $5,000. A revised proposed order shall be submitted to this department within 5 days of the clerk's service ofthis order. To set a hearing at June 13, 2024, at 3:30 p.m. in Department 503 as a hearing date for an Amended Judgment pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 384. A verified report of payouts of settlement funds and a proposed amended judgment shall be submitted no later than May 30, 2024....

Excerpt: ...creditor of a lesser sum in full satisfaction of the judgment." (Code Civ. Proc., S 724.010, subd. (a).) "For the purposes of subdivisions (b) and (c), the date a money judgment is satisfied in full or in part is the earliest of the following times: (2) The date satisfaction is tendered to the judgment creditor or deposited in court for the judgment creditor." (Code Civ. Proc., S 585.030, subd. (d)(2).) Upon satisfaction of the judgment, the judg...

Excerpt: ...uest for Court Judgment. (Cal. Rules of rule 3.1800(a); Holloway v. Quetel (2015) 242 cal.App.4th 1425, 1432.) This alone requires the denial of the application. The specific relief requested must be indicated on Form CIV- IW, and the relief must list the categories of damages. Second, the present application further fails to submit a declaration of nonmilitary status for each defendant against whom judgment is sought. (Cal. Rules of rule Federal...

Excerpt: ...court intends to deny plaintiff's motion to the extent that plaintiff seeks a determination that the settlement does not affect its claims against the non-settl-ng defendants, as such a determination is beyond the scope of section 877.6. Also, the court intends to deny plaintiff's moton to the extent it seeks to declare the settlement null and void and vacate the judgment. Explanation: Under Code of Civil Procedure section 877.6, subdivision (a),...

Excerpt: ... vehicle ensued which form the basis of the complaint for damages. Plaintiff brought four causes of action against each of defendant Lithia NC, Inc., dba Lithia Nissan of Clovis ("Lithia"), and the moving defendant Nissan North America, Inc. ("Nissan"), for violations of the Song-Beverly Act regarding warranties. Compel Arbitration Nissan moves to com#l arbitration on an arbitration clause in a retail installment sales contract ("RISC") made betw...

Excerpt: ...sis of the instant complaint for damages. Plaintiff brought a single cause of action against defendant, for an express violation of warranties afforded through the Song-Beverly Act. Though the complaint characterizes the agreement as a lease, is undisputed that the agreement is a retail installment sales contract ("RISC") made between plaintiff and a non-party, Toyota of Clovis. Compel Arbitration A trial court is required to grant a motion to co...