Excerpt: ...o amend; 5 th cause of action [CC§2923 et seq]: Ruiz is not a borrower; Pltfs do not allege materiality of any purported violation; Has Trustee's deed been recorded? If not, Pltfs may only obtain an injunction; Sustain with 10 days leave to amend; 6 th cause of action [quiet title]: Pltfs have not paid the debt so this remedy is not available; Sustain with 10 days leave to amend; Strike Portions of Complaint Moot based on above. ...

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Excerpt: ...his litigation and prepare the case for trial. Client has also failed to assist counsel in the litigation and there is currently a breakdown of the attorney-client relationship.” The declaration submitted in support of this Motion supports withdrawal under Rules of Professional Conduct, rule 3-700, subdivisions (C)(1)(d) and (C)(1)(f). Moving Counsel will remain the attorney of record for Mr. Lee until Moving Counsel files proof of service of t...

Excerpt: ...Wholesalers of California dba Seemo Cars at the same location as the Notice of Default was served. As with any proceeding, the court cannot proceed unless the complaint, moving papers, and all the supporting documents are timely served (Code Civ. Proc., § 1005). Any TRO already issued will be dissolved if the hearing is thwarted due to lack of service. (Code Civ. Proc., § 527(d)(3).) Accordingly, Writ of Attachment and Writ of Possession is tak...

Excerpt: .... . . .” Code of Civil Procedure section 576 provides, “Any judge, at any time before or after the commencement of trial, in the furtherance of justice, and upon such terms as may be proper, may allow the amendment of any pleading . . . .” “A court, at any time before or after commencement of trial, may allow an amendment to a pleading in furtherance of justice. [Citation.] Where no prejudice is shown to the adverse party, the liberal rul...

Excerpt: ...s or her burden of showing that a cause of action has no merit if that party has shown that one or more elements of the cause of action, even if not separately pleaded, cannot be established, or that there is a complete defense to that cause of action. Once the defendant . . . has met that burden, the burden shifts to the plaintiff . . . to show that a triable issue of one or more material facts exists as to that cause of action or a defense ther...

Excerpt: ...iable issue of material fact. Plaintiffs having not filed any opposition hereto, fails to sustain their burden and the motion is granted. MP to give notice. MP has sustained its burden of establishing it had no ownership or possessory interest in the vehicles involved in the accident. As such, it could not give permission to Defendant Stine to use the vehicle and thus, there was no duty owed by MP. Plaintiffs fail to sustain their burden to creat...

Excerpt: ...essional Conduct, rule 3-700, subdivisions (C)(1)(d) and (C)(1)(f). Moving Counsel will remain the attorney of record for Air802, LLC until Moving Counsel files proof of service of the signed order upon Air802, LLC. The order will become effective upon the filing of the proof of service upon Air802, LLC. Moving counsel to give notice. Moving Counsel's (Law Offices of Thomas F. Nowland) unopposed Motion to be Relieved as Counsel for Defendant—Mi...

Excerpt: ...ng party may move for an order compelling a further response if the propounding party deems that any of the following apply: [¶] (1) An answer to a particular interrogatory is evasive or incomplete . . . [¶] (3) An objection to an interrogatory is without merit or too general.” Code of Civil Procedure section 2030.220, provides, “(a) Each answer in a response to interrogatories shall be as complete and straight forward as the information re...

Excerpt: ...es, “(a) If a deponent fails to . . . produce any document, electronically stored information, or tangible thing under the deponent's control that is specified in . . . a deposition subpoena, the party seeking discovery may move the court for an order compelling that . . . production. [¶] (b) The motion shall be made no later than 60 days after the completion of the record of the deposition, and shall be accompanied by a meet and confer declar...

Excerpt: ...eglect.” “Section 473 is often applied liberally where the party in default moves promptly to seek relief, and the party opposing the motion will not suffer prejudice if relief is granted. [Citation.] In such situations ‘very slight evidence will be required to justify a court in setting aside thre default.' [Citation.]” (Elston v. City of Turlock (1985) 38 Cal.3d 227, 233; see also, Fasuyi v. Permatex, Inc. (Fasuyi) (2008) 167 Cal.App.4 ...

Excerpt: ...e judgment, dismissal, order, or proceedings was taken.” Here, a copy of the proposed answer was not attached to the application. Further, the Proof of Service does not comply with Code of Civil Procedure section 1013a, subdivision (a), because the affidavit did not contain “. . . the name and address of the person served as shown on the envelope . . . .” Defendant is to file a proper Proof of Service of the moving papers no later than Febr...

Excerpt: ...ests for mandatory injunctive relief that Plaintiff is simply not entitled to. With respect to request to prohibit Defendant from using corporate funds to pay its attorney fees, the harm lies in Defendant's favor. Essentially, Defendant Corporation may only appear by way of counsel (i.e., it cannot appear in pro per), and as a separate legal entity, it should be able to hire and pay for an attorney to defend itself from Plaintiff's lawsuit. At mi...

Excerpt: ... mediation provisions, to whatever extent those provisions condition an attorney fee award on completing pre- dispute mediation. It would be unreasonable to discount the attorney fee award because PatentRatings did not prevail on its declaratory relief claim. It did prevail on other claims addressing inextricably intertwined issues. (See Reynolds Metals Co. v. Alperson (1979) 25 Cal. 3d 124, 129- 130; Thompson Pacific Construction. Inc. v. City o...

Excerpt: ...erent facts, circumstances, or law are claimed to be shown.” CCP § 1008 CCP § 1008 allows the trial court to reconsider and modify, amend, or revoke its prior order where the moving party show different facts exist. Mink v. Superior Court (1992) 2 Cal.app. 4th 1338, 1342. The moving party "'must provide not only new evidence but also a satisfactory explanation for the failure to produce that evidence at an earlier time." Id. Application: Prio...

Excerpt: ...on. Id. at 270 (emphasis in original). Appellate courts have underscored the high threshold set by Walker: “[The plaintiff] may well not prevail on the factual disputes regarding the extent of his injuries . . . . But a [Walker] hearing is not to be perceived as a minitrial or an opportunity for a trial judge to put forth a well-educated guess of a verdict. The unlikeliness of a judgment in excess of $25,000 is not the test. The trial court rev...

Excerpt: .... Guide Civ. Pro. Before Trial Ch. 8F-3 [The Rutter Group] at 8:956.1.) The objection based on “burdensome and oppressive” will not lie solely on the basis of the number of questions asked; other reasons must be shown. (Id. at 8:1099.) Plaintiff is ordered to respond to the discovery within 45- days. Trial scheduled for March 12, 2018 will be continued, and counsel should come prepared to discuss a future trial date. All discovery and motion ...

Excerpt: ... the decedent, and to assert a cause of action for wrongful death. The proposed First Amended Complaint is attached to the moving papers. The motion is not opposed. Plaintiff is ordered to file and serve on all counsel of record and any new parties the First Amended Complaint within (5) five days from notice of this hearing. Plaintiff to give notice. 2. Case Management Conference To be continued by Court. ...

Excerpt: ...Plaintiff shall file and serve a clean, non-redlined version of the proposed FAC attached to counsel's declaration as Exhibit A within 10 days of this order. Plaintiff shall give notice. ...

Excerpt: ...ppeal, and the Commercial Guaranty signed by Defendant provides for the recovery of reasonable attorney's fees. (Civ. Code § 1717(a); ComputerXpress, Inc. v. Jackson (2001) 93 Cal.App.4th 993, 1020.) Plaintiff does not provide evidence to establish the reasonableness of counsel's rates. (PLCM Group v. Drexler (2000) 22 Cal.4th 1084.) The court, thus, reduces the recoverable hourly rate for counsels Hurwitz and Lallas to $450 per hour. Based on t...

Excerpt: ...amages and foreclosure on security). First, defendants have shown a defect of parties. (Code Civ. Proc., § 430.10, subd. (d).) Plaintiff should name Jerry Monroe's estate as a party. The FAC alleges defendants Nicole Seymour and Jeff Seymour failed to repay a loan from plaintiff and Jerry Monroe, which was secured by Jerry Monroe's shares in defendant Towne. (That is not a typo. The FAC alleges Jerry Monroe pledged his own shares to secure a loa...

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Excerpt: ...amend as to the first through fourth causes of action and sustained without leave to amend as to the fifth cause of action. The motions to strike are moot. Plaintiffs' request for judicial notice of Exhibits “A” through “E” is granted. Actions. Evid. Code §§ 425(c)-(d), 453. The Court takes judicial notice of the court records, but not the truth of the contents of the matters therein. Fremont Indem. Co. v. Fremont General Corp. (2007) 1...

Excerpt: ...ill dismiss this case. The Court notes that Civil Code § 55.54 appears to only apply to attorneys, not plaintiffs who are in pro per. However, the Court finds that Plaintiff is a high frequency litigant, defined as a plaintiff or attorney who has filed 10 or more construction-related complaints within past 12 months. He is therefore required to pay a $1,000 supplemental high- frequency litigant filing fee. (Code Civ. Proc. § 425.55(b); Gov. Cod...

Excerpt: ...y, we deem plaintiffs to have abandoned the issue.”].) In addition, the 1 st cause of action for breach of contract appears to be time-barred (Code of Civ. Proc., § 339.) In addition, for the 3 rd cause of action, it is fatally unclear what “intentional tort” Plaintiff is asserting against Defendants. Assuming Plaintiff is asserting some sort of conversion claim, the conversion claim appears to be time- barred. (Code of Civ. Proc., § 338(...

Excerpt: ...�FAC”) is overruled. Defendant are ordered to Answer the Complaint within 10 days. As to the fifth cause of action for IIED, Plaintiff now alleges that: “Defendants' conduct of, including but not limited to, subjecting Plaintiff to: yelling and making remarks during his employment such as calling him "incompetent" during conference calls with other employees on the phone, defendants spread rumors about plaintiffs disability to other employees...

Excerpt: ...ow that there are triable issues of material fact on whether the parties entered into a contract. In the County's Separate Statement, it listed only eight facts These facts do not established that a contract was never formed. The Union representatives were consulted on the job sharing agreement. (UMF 28). Ms. Kiddy signed on behalf on the County. (UMF 30). After Plaintiff signed the agreement, the County implemented it. (UMF 31). Plaintiff was ne...

Excerpt: ...rt further ORDERS plaintiff to SHOW CAUSE why the action should not be dismissed due to its apparent suspended status. The OSC is set for March 12, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. Plaintiff shall file its papers in opposition to dismissal no later than February 20; defendant shall file any papers in response thereto no later than February 17; plaintiff may file any reply to defendant's papers no later than March 5. I. Demurrer A. Suspended Corporate Status In ...

Excerpt: ...certain. (Code Civ. Proc., § 431.10, subd. (f).) It lacks any “statement of the facts constituting the cause of action, in ordinary and concise language.” (Code Civ. Proc., § 425.10.) Instead, it is cluttered with confusing conclusions and citations. Plaintiff fails to show a reasonable possibility of curing the defects. (See Blank v. Kirwan (1985) 39 Cal.3d 311, 318.) Plaintiff has not cured these lingering defects despite repeated orders ...

Excerpt: ... above reason and because defendant's/cross-complainant's Separate Statement of Undisputed Material Facts does not comply with California Rule of Court Rule 3.1350(b). The issues specifically stated in the Notice of Motion are not repeated verbatim in the Separate Statement. Moving party to give notice. ...

Excerpt: ...e also ¶4 and ¶53-¶56 of FAC, ¶2 and ¶5 of Makemson Declaration and ¶3 and ¶6 of Walden Declaration). As a nominal defendant the corporation stands in conflict with the insider defendant who is being accused of fraud. Court issues no order regarding outside counsel for the corporation but notes that the Court in Forrest concluded that outside counsel for the corporation is the better approach while the corporate attorney represents the ins...

Excerpt: ...nted as to Issue Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5 and denied as to Issue Nos. 1 and 6. Cross-Defendants' requests for judicial notice are granted. Cross-Complainants' objections to evidence submitted in support of Cross-Defendants' motion for summary judgment/adjudication are overruled. “[F]rom commencement to conclusion, the party moving for summary judgment bears the burden of persuasion that there is no triable issue of material fact and that he is entit...

Excerpt: ...Pacers Inc. v. Superior Court (1984) 162 Cal.App.3d 686, 690 [trial courts have the discretion to stay a civil action when a criminal matter is pending.]) All other discovery as to third party witnesses and documents is not stayed. (Fuller v. Superior Court (2001) 87 Cal.App.4th 299, 310 [the trial court may devise a solution that fairly accommodates the interests of all parties and the judicial system in light of circumstances].) A status hearin...

Excerpt: ...for trial on 10/24/16 without a biomechanic (see ROA 97, 100), further showing the absence of good cause for the late request. Plaintiff is here now seeking permission to once again add an expert to discuss forces associated with the impact (by way of an accident reconstructionist). Plaintiff also wants to include four additional treating physicians and expand the scope of testimony from economist Enrique Vega. This request is an expansion of pla...

Excerpt: ...e same terms as the TRO, to remain in effect until the property is seized by the levying officer. [CCP § 513.010(c)]. No undertaking, as Defendant has no interest in the subject vehicles. CCP§515.010(b). Clerk to give notice. ...

Excerpt: ...20) days, Plaintiff and her attorney shall pay sanctions in the sum of $1,335.00 [($318.75 per hour x 4 hours) + $60.00 filing fee]. The requested sanctions were reduced by three hours, because there was no Opposition or Reply. Motion No. 2: Defendant's Motion for Terminating Sanctions is DENIED.The court orders Plaintiff to comply with the court's previous orders of previous discovery orders of April 24, 2017 and October 2, 2017. For failure to ...

Excerpt: ... to March 19, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. in Department C-26. Paramount is ordered to produce evidence of the costs it incurred in taking the depositions of Steve Martin and Brian Bergmark. No further briefing is permitted. Motion 2: Motion to Tax Costs. Moving Party: Paramount Petroleum Company (“Paramount”). Responding Party: Sully Miller Holding Company (“Sully Miller”). Opposition filed. Ruling Motion 2: Paramount's Motion to Tax Costs is gran...

Excerpt: ...dence that the defendant has been guilty of oppression, fraud, or malice. “Malice” means conduct that is intended to cause injury or despicable conduct that is carried on with a willful and conscious disregard of the right and safety of others. Civ. Code § 3294(c)(1). In Taylor v. Superior Court (1979) 24 Cal.3d 890, plaintiff sued to recover compensatory and punitive damages for injuries sustained in an automobile collision with a car drive...

Excerpt: ... argues that decedent “died instantly,” but this appears to be a mischaracterization of Plaintiff's pleadings, as discussed more fully below under the third point. (Motion to Strike at p. 2, lines 5-6 [citing Complaint at ¶¶ 4-10. 17].) Defendant's argument tacitly imples that decedent's surviving spouse may maintain a wrongful death action, but cannot not bring a survival action because decedent's death was instantaneous. Where a decedent ...

Excerpt: ... under Civ. Proc. Code § 473 (b). Leader v. Health Indus. of Am., Inc. (2001) 89 Cal. App. 4th 603, 620. The requirement to submit an answer or other pleading applies to the discretionary portion of the statute. When the court grants a relief under the mandatory portion of Civ. Proc. Code § 473 (b), “[t]he court shall, whenever relief is granted based on an attorney's affidavit of fault, direct the attorney to pay reasonable compensatory lega...

Excerpt: ...fer. Lawyers' Escrow is ordered to comply with the Subpoena within 15 days after service of notice of this order. Monetary sanctions in the amount of $560 are awarded against Lawyers' Escrow and in favor of Plaintiffs. Code Civ. Proc., § 2025.480; see also Cal. Prac. Guide Civ. Pro. Before Trial Ch. 8E-6 at ¶ 8:617.5 (“Monetary sanctions (as well as contempt) are available against nonparties who ‘flout the discovery process.'”). Plaintiff...

Excerpt: ... GRANTED. (CCP § 473(d).) The default judgment against Defendant Laterza is void as a matter of law due to improper service. (Ellard v. Conway (2001) 94 Cal.App.4th 540, 544; Ramos v. Homeward Residential, Inc. (2014) 223 Cal.App.4th 1434, 1443-44.) Plaintiff attempted to serve Defendant by substituted service at Defendant's work, but did not locate or use the correct work address. Within 15 days of service of the notice of ruling, Defendant sha...

Excerpt: ... regarding the use of Doe pseudonyms in court proceedings. “[F]ederal courts “have permitted plaintiffs to use pseudonyms in three situations: (1) when identification creates a risk of retaliatory physical or mental harm [citations] ; (2) when anonymity is necessary ‘to preserve privacy in a matter of sensitive and highly personal nature,' [citations]; and (3) when the anonymous party is ‘compelled to admit [his or her] intention to engag...

Excerpt: ...on 11/24/15. It sought a judicial declaration “as to whether Plaintiff or Defendant have acquired an easement over the other's property based on the location of the boundary line.” Complaint, Prayer at 12. In four separate causes of action – the Eighth through Eleventh – Plaintiff sought the establishment of “an easement across Defendant's property for use of Plaintiff's driveway.” Id. at 13. It does not appear that Plaintiff verified...

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Excerpt: ...ndant has identified two groups of documents to which the subject requests pertain: (1) documents relevant to pricing and payment arrangements between Miracle Mile and plaintiff in the past, and (2) documents reflecting plaintiff's cost for durable medical equipment issued to the various defendants. It appears that the documents sought would be directly relevant to defendants' unclean hands and unjust enrichment defenses, as well as to the reason...

Excerpt: ...lance footage at issue. Thus, Plaintiff's motion is moot as to the video. Defendants have met their burden to establish the incident report at issue is protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege. (Evid. Code § 405; D.I. Chadbourne, Inc. v. Super. Ct. (1964) 60 Cal.2d 723, 736; Soltani-Rastegar v. Super. Ct. (1989) 208 Cal.App.3d 424; Payless Drug Stores, Inc. v. Superior Court (1976) 54 Cal.App.3d 988.) Here, the incident report ...

Excerpt: ...terrogatory No. 3 and DENIED, as to Special Interrogatory No. 4. The Court finds Plaintiff's response to Special Interrogatory No. 3 was evasive and incomplete and orders a further verified response, absent objections, within 15 days-notice of this order. No order of sanctions. Moving party to give notice. ...

Excerpt: ...or RFA 40, Plaintiff stated that she was diagnosed with bone-related conditions which “were in fact not indicated” as she “would later learn from other podiatrists,” but failed to identify the factual basis for that conclusion, such as the identity of the referenced “other podiatrists,” what they told her, and any corresponding records. Plaintiff also refers to an unspecified history of disciplinary proceedings and record of “making...

Excerpt: ...is sold and transferred al rights, title, and interest in the subject property to her. (Martz Decl., ¶ 2.) Based on that Declaration, on 8/22/16, the court ruled that: “Gayle Martz is substituted as a plaintiff in this action, in Orange County Superior Court Case No. 30-2009-00120639 (which has been consolidated with lead case No. 01CC15035), instead and in place of Plaintiffs.” Plaintiff argues that the court should exercise discretion and ...