Excerpt: ...under Local Rule 2.9 remain in effect. However, the Court may grant belated requests for oral argument or continuance of hearing, made by any party who represents it did not timely receive the required notice, regardless of whether or not moving party is present at the hearing. Plaintiff Capital One Bank (USA), N.A. (Capital One) moves, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 473, subdivision (b) (Section 473(b)), to set aside the default jud...

Excerpt: ...cussion below. (Rules of Court, rule 3.1320, subd. (g).) A. Procedural Matters Frattini demurs to the complaint filed by Plaintiff Lan Thi Tran Nguyen (“Plaintiff”), pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure sections 430.10, subdivisions (e) and (f), on the ground that all causes of action fail to allege facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action and are fatally uncertain. The moving party failed to include in the notice of this motion proper...

Excerpt: ...o plead or within any further time that the court may for good cause allow, may serve and file a notice of motion...[t]o quash service of summons on the ground of lack of jurisdiction of the court over him or her.” (Code Civ. Proc., § 418.10, subd. (a)(1).) Respondent here seeks an order quashing the September 16, 2022 service on grounds that it was not served in conformity with the relevant provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure. (See Code...

Excerpt: ...time to file [] a responsive pleading.” (Notice at 2.) “This motion is made on the grounds there is good cause to allow the filing of an amended complaint adding in as plaintiff Edward Sanchez as his cause of action for wrongful foreclosure is for the same real property in which current plaintiff Christopher Bearman is also alleging wrongful foreclosure.” (Ibid.) Sanchez cites Code of Civil Procedure section 473, subdivision (a)(1), and Rul...

Excerpt: ...d (2) to the first and second causes of action on the grounds that “the claim sued upon was previously settled and released through a written Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release that was attached to the Complaint and incorporated therein by reference.” (See Demurrer at 1:23‐2:28.) A complaint must contain “facts constituting the cause of action.” (Code Civ. Proc., § 425.10, subd. (a)(1)1 .) “The party against whom a complaint or ...

Excerpt: ...ents' request for an order vacating or correcting the arbitration award is DENIED. The Petition to Confirm the Award is GRANTED. The Court orders the Clerk to set the matter for a Case Management Conference on December 14, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. A. A. PROCEDURAL MATTERS Defendants / Petitioners Napa Creek Village, LLC, Barbara L. Meyer, and U.S. Fire Insurance Co. (Petitioners) petition the Court, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure, section...

Excerpt: ...tition for Writ of Mandate. Through both, Petitioner moves, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 1085, Corporations Code sections 17704.10 and 17701.13 et seq., and Rules of Court, rule 8.932, for a Writ of Mandate directed to Respondents Kelham Vineyards & Winery LLC (“Kelham Vineyards”) and Susanna Rogers Kelham (“Ms. Kelham”) (collectively, “Respondents”) to enforce Petitioner's right, as a member of Kelham Vineyards, to obt...

Excerpt: ...served as Defendant's Director of Nursing “while plaintiff was residing there....” (See Notice of Motion at 1:22‐27.) Plaintiff so moves on grounds that good cause exists to compel the deposition and Defendant failed to provide justification for its refusal to produce the witness. Plaintiff further moves for an award of monetary sanctions against Defendant in the amount of $1,100.00. It appears, however, that Defendant did produce the witne...

Excerpt: ...t filed June 22, 2022, and that filed October 24, 2022, are GRANTED. The Court takes judicial notice of Napa County Code, section 15.04.080, Napa County Ordinance Nos. 1020, 1109, and 1160, and the 1991, 1994, and 1997 Uniform Building Codes. The Court rules on the objections to Peletta's evidence asserted by responding parties Francis Wang and Laura Young (collectively the Wangs) as follows: Objection No. 1: Sustained as to 39:22‐24 and overru...

Excerpt: ... and Sudha Sawkar (collectively, “Plaintiffs”). Defendants also seek their attorneys' fees and costs incurred in connection with this motion. The motion is made on the grounds that “[t]he Notice is void on its face for failure to comply with the mandatory notice requirements of the Code of Civil Procedure and for plaintiffs' failure to verify their complaint.” (Notice of Motion at 2.) Defendants' Request for Judicial Notice (“RJN”) of...

Excerpt: ...sed redactions are on 10 pages of an arbitrator award totaling 38 pages and on four pages of an arbitration pleading totaling 19 pages, which are attached as Exhibits C and D to the Petition to Vacate, as identified in the Declaration of David J. Millstein. (Millstein Decl. ¶ 6, Exh. C.) Respondents indicate that, while Petitioners do not join the present motion, counsel for Petitions have informed Respondents that they will not oppose the motio...

Excerpt: ... sections 473c, subdivision (a)(1), and 576, for leave to file a fourth amended complaint. The motion is brought “on the grounds that the interests of justice will be served if plaintiffs are allowed to revise their sixth cause of action for declaratory [relief] to remove all doubt that the only requested relief is a judicial determination that the 2005 Agreement did not terminate when plaintiffs reconstructed and remodeled their house and barn...

Excerpt: ...les providing for electronic filing and service.” Rule 3.1300(c) states that “[p]roof of service of the moving papers must be filed no later than five court days before the time appointed for the hearing.” Here, Plaintiff has not filed a proof of service of the present motion to the Defendants in this action.4 Furthermore, Plaintiff failed to include a Notice of Motion stating the nature of the order sought and the grounds for such an order...

Excerpt: ...ary injunction should not be ordered restraining and enjoining Defendants, their agents, and employees, and each of them, during the pendency of this action from erecting or using in any manner or form any obstruction on Plaintiffs' access easement as depicted in the Map of the Lands of Carter A. Martin, et ux, Recorded July 13, 1980 in Book 11 of Parcel Maps at Page 59, Napa County Records. In Plaintiffs' Notice of Order to Show Cause, they fail...

Excerpt: ...her in this matter on May 18, 2022.”2 (Notice of Motion at 1:22‐24.) Plaintiff further moves, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure, section 128.5, for an order awarding her monetary sanctions in the amount of $29,702.50 “in addition to further sanctions in the amount of fees earned by Defendant's counsel in connection with Defendant's attempts to evade the settlement” to be paid to the Court. (Id. at 1:25‐28.) The motion is made on the g...

Excerpt: ...ith the foregoing. Defendant CSAA Insurance Exchange (CSAA) moves, pursuant to California Rules of Court, rule 2.550 and 2.551, for an order to seal certain records that were, on September 26, 2022, conditionally lodged under seal by Plaintiffs Armand Maaskamp and Lynn Maaskamp. “The court may order that a record be filed under seal only if it expressly finds facts that establish: (1) There exists an overriding interest that overcomes the right...

Excerpt: ...ocal Rule 2.9. Moving party is directed to immediately provide, by telephone call AND email, the missing notice to opposing party/ies forthwith. The requirements for requesting oral argument under Local Rule 2.9 remain in effect. However, the Court may grant belated requests for oral argument or continuance of hearing, made by any party who represents it did not timely receive the required notice, regardless of whether or not moving party is pres...

Excerpt: ...‐Defendant Finnuala Hanifan (“Finnuala”) moves for an order compelling Defendant and Cross‐Complainant Silverado Resort Investment Group, LLC dba Silverado Resort (“Silverado”) to produce Defendant and Cross‐Complainant Adrian Gonzalez's (“Gonzalez”) company cell phone. Finnuala further moves for sanctions in the amount of $2,100 pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 2023.010, subdivisions (d)‐(f). On July 15, 2022, Finn...

Excerpt: ...ursing “while plaintiff was residing there....” (See Notice of Motion at 1:22‐27.) Plaintiff so moves on the grounds that good cause exists to compel the deposition and Defendant failed to provide justification for its refusal to produce the witness. Plaintiff further moves for an award of monetary sanctions against Defendant in the amount of $1,100.00. While the moving party includes an abstract reference to the Court's tentative ruling sy...

Excerpt: ...use of action for Common Counts on the ground that it is undisputed that Plaintiff provided various recycling landfill services between October 2015 and March 2021 and Defendant failed to pay for these services in the amount of $27,677.51. In the alternative, Plaintiff moves for summary adjudication of its cause of action and as to Defendant's four affirmative defenses on the ground that Defendant lacks evidence to support its affirmative defense...

Excerpt: ...ements. To clarify, the Court is not granting Peletta leave to present any additional evidence. The Wangs are granted leave to file, no later than October 27, 2022, a sur‐sur‐reply of no more than 3 pages addressing any issues raised in the sur‐reply. A. PROCEDURAL MATTERS Defendant and Cross‐Complainant Peter Peletta moves for summary adjudication of Plaintiffs' claims for easement by prescription, equitable easement, on his eighth affir...

Excerpt: ...37 and 46 and the Prayer, Paragraph 6, in their entirety. The moving party failed to include in the notice of this motion proper notice of the Court's tentative ruling system as required by Local Rule 2.9. Moving party is directed to immediately provide, by telephone call AND email, the missing notice to opposing party/ies forthwith. The requirements for requesting oral argument under Local Rule 2.9 remain in effect. However, the Court may grant ...

Excerpt: ...dy (collectively, “Defendants”) move, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure sections 2030.290, subdivisions (b) and (c), and 2031.300, subdivisions (b) and (c), for an order compelling Plaintiff Terry Francis to provide responses, without objections, to the Supplemental Interrogatories, Supplemental Requests for Production of Documents, Form Interrogatories, Set Two, Special Interrogatories, Set Two, and Request for Production of Documents, Set...

Excerpt: ...f Action in the SAC is for Breach of Contract/Specific Performance against Long. (SAC at 15:8‐9.) The Prayer for Relief requests “[s]pecific performance of the BVK Purchase Agreement.” (SAC, Prayer at ¶ 1.) Pursuant to the BVK Purchase Agreement, dated November 15, 2007, Long agreed to sell, assign, transfer and deliver to BVK, and BVK agreed to purchase from Long all of the right, title and interest of Long in and to all of the following ...

Excerpt: ... Initial Moving Papers In an effort to avoid confusion, the Court begins with a brief discussion of the moving papers. On June 20, 2022, Fultz filed an ex parte application to shorten time for hearing on the present motion. The application was granted on June 22, 2022. Thereafter, on June 22, 2022, Fultz filed notice of the present motion (Notice). Fultz did not, however, file any papers in support of the motion, save a declaration discussed belo...

Excerpt: ...ith the requirements under Code of Civil Procedure section 1005, subdivision (b), and to file a proof of service required by Rules of Court, rule 3.1300, subdivision (c). Plaintiff Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC (“Plaintiff”) moves, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 473, for an order vacating the judgment against Defendant Xavier Gonzalez (“Defendant”) and requests that the Court enter a dismissal without prejudice. Defendan...

Excerpt: ...expert disclosures are extended based on the new May 11, 2023 TMC date. Defendants Jack Neal & Son, Inc., Frank Brower Grant, Jr. and JNS, LLC (“Defendants”) move, pursuant to Rule 3.1332 of the California Rules of Court, to continue the October 31, 2022 trial and all current pretrial deadlines in this matter to May 2023 and to continue all pretrial deadlines. The moving party failed to include in the notice of this motion proper notice of th...

Excerpt: ...ial, in the furtherance of justice, and upon such terms as may be proper,” allow a plaintiff to amend the operative complaint. (Code Civ. Proc. §576; see also Id. at §473, subd. (a)(1).) Leave to amend is left to the sound discretion of the trial court.” (Branick v. Downey Savings & Loan Association (2006) 39 Cal.4th 235, 242.) The bulk of the proposed changes are a host of novel factual allegations supporting a fraud claim, based on a cent...

Excerpt: ...omplainants”) Requests for Production of Documents, Set One no later than 15 calendar days after notice of entry of the present order. Mr. Nguyen and his counsel are ordered to pay to Cross‐ Complainants, care of their attorney of record, within 15 calendar days of notice of entry of this order, sanctions in the total amount of $4,413.75. Cross‐Complainants move, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 2031.300, subdivisions (b) and (c)...

Excerpt: ...dgment or, in the alternative, summary adjudication of all five causes of action asserted against it in Plaintiff Frederick Just's (“Just” or “Plaintiff”) Complaint, based on 10 separately‐ enumerated grounds identified as Issues I‐X. (See, generally, Notice of Motion.) The Court rules on CalVet's evidentiary objections as follows: Objection Nos. 1‐3, 6: The respective subjects of these objections are not relevant to the Court's res...

Excerpt: ... A. Lawson (“Mr. Lawson”), as the managing member and Chief Executive Office of Defendant, for up to five days or, under Code of Civil Procedure section 1219, subdivision (a), until Defendant has complied with the Court's Order and paid all outstanding sanctions and penalties, and (3) an order awarding its attorney's fees and costs incurred in connection with this Motion in the amount of $3,337.50. The moving party failed to include in the no...

Excerpt: ...dant (“Judgment”). (Notice at 2‐3.) By Order dated August 6, 2021, the Court suspended the execution of the sentence for Defendant's previous violations of the Judgment through and including January 31, 2022 to allow Defendant time to abate all prior violations by (1) obtaining any legally required permits from Napa County, (2) performing the required abatement work as set forth in the approved permits and in accordance with any conditions ...

Excerpt: ...nable costs to distribute payment to the Class once collected from the debtors; and (3) to clarify the timing of the payments to the Class now that the timing and amount of collection is reasonably certain to maximize efficiency.” (Ex Parte Application at 2:4‐9 (App.).) The relief sought requires Plaintiff to proceed by noticed motion. Plaintiff relies on Code of Civil Procedure, section 685.040 which provides that, “[a]ttorney's fees incur...

Excerpt: ...dgment on Plaintiff's Complaint, or in the alternative summary adjudication of the two causes of action asserted therein on the grounds that there are no triable issues of fact relating to either. The moving party failed to include in the notice of this motion proper notice of the Court's tentative ruling system as required by Local Rule 2.9. The moving party is therefore directed to immediately provide, by telephone call AND email, the missing n...

Excerpt: ...hird Amended Complaint (“TAC”). Rice's ground for summary adjudication of the Sixth Cause of Action is that “the undisputed material facts establish, as a matter of law, that, contrary to defendants' contention, plaintiffs' right to take water from defendants' property pursuant to the parties' 2005 water sharing agreement and water easement was not terminated by reason of plaintiffs' reconstruction of the house and renovation of the barn on...

Excerpt: ...subject matter. Plaintiff is directed to give Defendant notice of the continued hearing. The moving party failed to include in the notice of this motion proper notice of the Court's tentative ruling system as required by Local Rule 2.9. The moving party is therefore directed to immediately provide, by telephone call AND email, the missing notice to opposing party/ies forthwith. The requirements for requesting oral argument under Local Rule 2.9 re...

Excerpt: ...o file and serve, no later than October 14, 2022, a supplemental opposition, of no more than 10 pages in length, addressing Petitioner's supplemental memorandum and/or issues raised herein below not raised through the supplemental memorandum. Petitioner is then granted leave to file and serve, no later than October 19, 2022, a supplemental reply brief, of no more than 5 pages in length responding to Respondent's arguments. Petitioner Service Empl...

Excerpt: ... novel allegations of the Proposed SAC, with cut‐off dates calculated pursuant to the Code of Civil Procedure based on the new trial date. Plaintiffs Frank Wang and Laura Young (collectively Wangs) move, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure, sections 473, subdivision (a)(1), for leave to file a Second Amended Complaint in the form attached as Exhibit 1 to the Declaration of Anna St. John (Proposed SAC) for the purpose of “add[ing] or adjust[in...

Excerpt: ... 2:3‐6.) Through the Petition, Petitioner contends that “DMV abused its discretion and illegally withdrew Petitioner's driving privilege after her administrative interview appointment when Petitioner demonstrated, through her testimony, that she was not a negligent operator of her vehicle and has no physical or mental conditions which affect her ability to safely drive. The withdrawal of Petitioner's driving privilege is not supported by the ...

Excerpt: ...rcises its discretion to consider Defendant's late‐filed Opposition, which, to the Court's best understanding, requests an evidentiary hearing on the motion and another continuance to allow time to prepare for an evidentiary hearing and to retain counsel. Defendant provides no authority, or showing of good cause, for either request. “Evidence received at a law and motion hearing must be by declaration or request for judicial notice without te...

Excerpt: ... negligence asserted in the Third Amended Complaint (“TAC”),4 on the ground that, under Sheen v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. (2022) 12 Cal.5th 905, 915 reh'g denied 2022 Cal. LEXIS 2930 (Cal. June 1, 2022) (“Sheen”), Chase owes no duty of care to Plaintiffs as a matter of law and cannot be held liable for negligence. 4 The Court refers herein to TAC to refer to Plaintiffs' operative complaint, which is the Third Amended Complaint filed on Sep...

Excerpt: ...rsuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 430.10, subd. (e) and, with respect to the fifth cause of action, section 430.10, subd. (f) on the ground that Defendant is a religious nonprofit corporation exempt from the provisions of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”) pursuant to Government Code section 12926, subd. (d) and, as to the fifth cause of action, the complaint is uncertain as to an applicable policy basis. A complaint must co...

Excerpt: ...CEDURAL MATTERS 1. Initial Moving Papers In an effort to avoid as much confusion as possible, the Court briefly addresses the moving papers. On June 20, 2022, Fultz filed an ex parte application to shorten time for hearing on the present motion. The application was granted on June 22, 2022. Thereafter, on June 22, 2022, Fultz filed notice of the present motion (Notice). Fultz did not, however, file any papers in support of the motion, save a decl...

Excerpt: ...iant verification as to all of its Special Interrogatory Responses no later than 15 calendar days after notice of entry of the present order. Plaintiff moves, pursuant to the Code of Civil Procedure, sections 2030.300, subdivision (a), for an order compelling Defendant EVIG, LLC to produce further responses to Plaintiff's Special Interrogatories, Set One (Subject Discovery) on grounds that Defendant's objections are without merit or too general, ...

Excerpt: ...plaint. The moving party failed to include in the notice of this motion proper notice of the Court's tentative ruling system as required by Local Rule 2.9. Moving party is directed to immediately provide, by telephone call AND email, the missing notice to opposing party/ies forthwith. The requirements for requesting oral argument under Local Rule 2.9 remain in effect. However, the Court may grant belated requests for oral argument or continuance ...

Excerpt: ...rtgage Pass‐Through Trust 2005‐9, Mortgage Pass Through Certificate series 2005‐9 (“BNY Mellon”) (collectively, “Movants”) demur, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 430.10, subdivision (e), to all three causes of action asserted in Plaintiff Christopher Bearman's (“Plaintiff”) First Amended Complaint (“FAC”) filed on June 13, 2022 against Movants and Law Office of Les Zieve (collectively, “Defendants”). The demu...

Excerpt: ...n 15 calendar days after notice of entry of the present ruling, sanctions in the amount of $772.50 to Defendant, care of his attorney of record. Defendant Marco Hernandez Peralta moves, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure, section 2030.290, for an order compelling Plaintiff Elijahnick Brown to provide full and complete verified responses, without objections, to form interrogatories, special interrogatories and requests for production of documents...

Excerpt: ...�� is in good faith.2 The motion is opposed by Defendant Michael Buchanan (Buchanan). “Any party to an action in which it is alleged that two or more parties are joint tortfeasors or co‐obligors on a contract debt shall be entitled to a hearing on the issue of the good faith of a settlement entered into by the plaintiff or other claimant and one or more alleged tortfeasors or co‐obligors....” (§ 877.6, subd. (a)(1).) Importantly, the par...

Excerpt: ...rank J. Ballentine Irrevocable 2012 Trust dated May 11, 2012 (“Respondent”) moves, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure2 sections 2023.010 et seq., 2030.290, 2031.310, 2031.320 and 2033.290, for an order compelling Petitioner William V. Ballentine Jr. (“Petitioner”) to further respond, under oath, and produce all responsive documents and a privilege log, to the Respondent's Form Interrogatories – General, Set One, Nos. 8.1, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2...

Excerpt: ...a monetary sanction to Plaintiff in the sum of $1,060. The moving party failed to include in the notice of this motion proper notice of the Court's tentative ruling system as required by Local Rule 2.9. Moving party is directed to immediately provide, by telephone call AND email, the missing notice to opposing party/ies forthwith. The requirements for requesting oral argument under Local Rule 2.9 remain in effect. However, the Court may grant bel...