Excerpt: ...e, pursuant to Gov. Code §70617(e)(2). Defendant Fusion is ordered to give notice of the ruling unless notice is waived. Plaintiff Robert L. Crysel's (1) Motion to Compel Further Response to Special Interrogatories, Set 2, Propounded on Defendant Thomas W. Savino and Request for Sanctions, (2) Motion to Compel Further Response to Special Interrogatories, Set 1, Propounded on Defendant Tucker Advisory Group, Inc. and Request for Sanctions, and (3...

Excerpt: ...ement. Counsel also should provide a red-lined version of any revised papers, including the class notice. Counsel also should provide the court with an explanation of how the pending issues were resolved, with references to any corrections to the settlement agreement and the class notice, rather than with just a supplemental declaration or brief that simply asserts the issues have been resolved. The motion fails to provide the court with the esti...

Excerpt: ...lso should provide a red-lined version of any revised papers, including the class notice. Counsel also should provide the court with an explanation of how the pending issues were resolved, with references to any corrections to the settlement agreement and the class notice, rather than with just a supplemental declaration or brief that simply asserts the issues have been resolved. There is no definition in either the settlement agreement or the cl...

Excerpt: ...nagement Conference set for January 13, 2023 is ordered off calendar. A Post- Arbitration Review Hearing is set for May 26, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. The parties must file a Joint Status Report at least a week before the hearing, and may request a continuance by Stipulation and Order before the hearing or in their Joint Status Report if arbitration is not yet complete. The court concludes that there exists a valid agreement to arbitrate the individual cl...

Excerpt: ...tions #1 and 3 to the Declaration of Carenna Vargas are overruled, #2 is sustained as to the first sentence and overruled as to the second sentence, and #4 is overruled as to the first sentence and sustained as to the second sentence. Defendant's Specific Objections to the Declaration of Eric Yaeckel are sustained in full. The case of Gamboa v. Northeast Community Clinic (2021) 72 Cal. App. 5th 158, 165, compels the denial of this motion. There, ...

Excerpt: ...ons why the attendance of each would be inconvenient. Peiser v. Mettler (1958) 50 Cal. 2d 594, 607. Defendant's moving declarations simply provide, in ¶4 of attorney Lee's Declaration, “I anticipate that Plaintiff will require depositions from witnesses and/or experts that Defendant intends to call to trial. The depositions will require several trips to Fresno County to complete the several depositions of the following witnesses and/or experts...

Excerpt: ..., Inc., Case No. S274671. The Status Conference set for November 18, 2022 is ordered off calendar. A Post-Arbitration Review Hearing is set for May 26, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. The parties must file a Joint Status Report at least a week before the hearing, and may request a continuance if arbitration is not yet complete. The court concludes that there exists a valid agreement to arbitrate the claims asserted by plaintiff and that no grounds exist to bar...

Excerpt: ...week before the hearing, and may request a continuance if arbitration is not yet complete. The court concludes that there exists a valid agreement to arbitrate the claims asserted by plaintiff and that no grounds exist to bar enforcement of the agreement. CCP §1281.2. Plaintiff has failed to meet her burden of proving the facts of any defense to enforceability. Chin v. Advanced Fresh Concepts Franchise Corp. (2011) 194 Cal. App. 4th 704, 708. Pl...

Excerpt: ... effective, and that the purported opt-out by Sarah A. Villar was untimely and thus not effective. The Settlement Agreement provided in Section III(E)(3)(c), “Class Members who wish to exclude themselves from the Settlement must mail to the Settlement Administrator postmarked not later than forty-five (45) calendar days after the Settlement Administrator mails the Class Notice Packets, a signed Election Not to Participate in Settlement.” The ...

Excerpt: ...tion and pending the California Supreme Court's decision in Adolph v. Uber Technologies, Inc., Case No. S274671. Plaintiff's Request for Judicial Notice is denied as moot. The Case Management Conference set for November 18, 2022 is ordered off calendar. A Post-Arbitration Review Hearing is set for April 6, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. The parties must file a Joint Status Report at least a week before the hearing, and may request a continuance if arbitration...

Excerpt: ...nc.'s Demurrer to Third Amended Complaint is sustained without leave to amend. All four of the Requests for Judicial Notice are granted. However, while courts may take judicial notice of public records and their dates, parties and legally operative language, they do not accept the truth of matters stated in those documents. Fontenot v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (2011) 198 Cal. App. 4th 256, 264-65; Herrera v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. (2011) ...

Excerpt: .... Aller's efforts resulted in the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest, a significant benefit was conferred on a large class of persons, the necessity and financial burden of private enforcement were such as to make the award appropriate, and such fees and costs should not in the interest of justice be paid out of the recovery by the class. The gross settlement amount in this case increased from $1,750,000 to $2,254,280...

Excerpt: ...tters stated in those documents. Fontenot v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (2011) 198 Cal. App. 4th 256, 264- 65; Herrera v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. (2011) 196 Cal. App. 4th 1366, 1375. The court declines to rule on plaintiffs' evidentiary objections because the court does not deem such evidence material to its disposition of the motion under CCP §437c(q). There are triable issues of fact as to whether plaintiffs agreed to the release, and as ...

Excerpt: ...d version of any revised papers, including the class notice. Counsel also should provide the court with an explanation of how the pending issues were resolved, with references to any corrections to the settlement agreement and the class notice, rather than with just a supplemental declaration simply asserting that the issues have been resolved. The motion does not provide the court with the estimated high and low payments to be paid to class memb...

Excerpt: ... any revised papers, including the class notice. Counsel also should provide the court with an explanation of how the pending issues were resolved, with references to any corrections to the settlement agreement and the class notice, rather than with just a supplemental declaration simply asserting that the issues have been resolved. Plaintiff did not provide the court with a copy of his separate individual settlement agreement, referenced in ¶28...

Excerpt: ...that the court deems material to its disposition of the motion. CCP §437c(q). SSMF moved for summary judgment on the ground that plaintiff Richard Carlson lacked standing. Since the filing of this motion, the complaint has been amended to replace Carlson with another beneficiary of the Trust, Rohinton T. Aresh. Since Aresh and Carlson are similarly situated as beneficiaries of the Trust, the analysis is the same. The Maryland Code, which both si...

Excerpt: ...t. Counsel also should provide a red-lined version of any revised papers, including the class notice. Counsel also should provide the court with an explanation of how the pending issues were resolved, with references to any corrections to the settlement agreement and the class notice, rather than with just a supplemental declaration or brief that simply asserts the issues have been resolved. The motion does not provide the court with the estimate...

Excerpt: ...sed papers, including the class notice. Counsel also should provide the court with an explanation of how the pending issues were resolved, with references to any corrections to the settlement agreement and the class notice, rather than with just a supplemental declaration or brief that simply asserts the issues have been resolved. Plaintiffs' 35 pages of moving points and authorities exceed not just the usual 15-page limit of CRC Rule 3.1113(d), ...

Excerpt: ...ployee Handbook” and agreed to “abide by these rules during my employment”. (However, defendant did not provide the court with the actual handbook that allegedly contains the arbitration agreement to show that plaintiff in fact received the arbitration agreement on June 26, 2017.) On July 3, 2017, after plaintiff's week of training, plaintiff signed the arbitration agreement in the employee handbook. Around July 26, 2017, plaintiff signed a...

Excerpt: ...age was 181,892 unique Acorn accounts. However, the list provided to the administrator included 232,199 accounts. Plaintiff must provide an explanation for the substantial increase in the number of accounts. The Administrator cleansed the list of accounts to remove duplicates and otherwise remove purportedly invalid e-mail addresses, and so notice was sent for only 218,684 of those accounts, and only 213,035 successfully received the notice, as t...

Excerpt: ...t Agreement, all claims for civil penalties under PAGA that were asserted or could have been asserted based on the facts alleged in the Second Amended Complaint, including the specific claims set forth in subsections (a) through (h) of Section 2.2 of the Settlement Agreement. It is within the extent allowed by law to permit the release of the claims for (e) failure to reimburse necessary business- related expenses and (g) failure to pay all veste...

Excerpt: ...ng of a redacted version of the document, attached as Exhibit A to the Declaration of Tyler J. Scott in support of this motion. It is further ordered that ROA 1012 be sealed upon the filing of a redacted version of the document, attached as Exhibit B to the Scott Declaration. It is further ordered that ROA 950 be sealed upon the filing of a redacted version of the document, attached as Exhibit C to the Scott Declaration. Defendant must file the r...

Excerpt: ...ial Notice are denied as irrelevant. Zucchet v. Galardi (2014) 229 Cal. App. 4th 1466, 1474 n.5. Plaintiff's evidentiary objections were neither numbered consecutively nor accompanied by a proposed order. As such, they did not comply with CRC Rule 3.1354(b) and (c) and the court declines to rule on them. Hodjat v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. (2012) 211 Cal. App. 4th 1, 8. Under CCP §437c(f)(1), a party may bring a motion for summary ad...

Excerpt: ...ployee Handbook” and agreed to “abide by these rules during my employment”. (However, defendant did not provide the court with the actual handbook that allegedly contains the arbitration agreement to show that plaintiff in fact received the arbitration agreement on June 26, 2017.) On July 3, 2017, after plaintiff's week of training, plaintiff signed the arbitration agreement in the employee handbook. Around July 26, 2017, plaintiff signed a...

Excerpt: ...records under Evidence Code §§452(d). However, while courts may take judicial notice of court records and their dates, parties and legally operative language, they do not accept the truth of matters stated in those documents. Fontenot v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (2011) 198 Cal. App. 4th 256, 264-65; Herrera v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. (2011) 196 Cal. App. 4th 1366, 1375. NMAC has shown good cause for a subsequent deposition of Michael Kah...