Excerpt: ...aint within 10 days of the expiration of the period of time to amend. (See Cal. Rules of Ct. rule 3.1320(j).) Defendant Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.'s Request for Judicial Notice is GRANTED. (See Evid. Code, S 452 subds. (d), (h).) Defendant Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. demurs to the 1st through 5th Causes of Action of the First Amended Complaint (FAC) filed by Plaintiff Saloomeh Moazed. Standard for Demurrer A demurrer challenges only the legal sufficiency ...

Excerpt: ...otice of ruling. Plaintiff Anthony J. Ortiz's Motion to Compel Further Responses and Responses Under Oath [Form Interrogatories] is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. Defendant General Motors LLC is ORDERED to serve full, complete, and verified responses and Plaintiff Anthony J. Ortiz's Special Interrogatories, Set One, Numbers 1-6, 23-24, 30-31, 33, and 36 within 30 days of the notice of ruling. Plaintiff Anthony J. Ortiz moves to compel Defend...

Excerpt: ...s to Requests for Production Civil Procedure Code section 2031.210 requires that: The party to whom a demand for inspection, copying, testing, or sampling has been directed shall respond separately to each item or category of item by any of the following: (1) A statement that the party will comply with the particular demand for inspection, copying, testing, or sampling by the date set for the inspection, copying, testing, or sampling pursuant to ...

Excerpt: ... Conference to discuss the status of Kouyoumjian v. Reganyan and the stay in this action. Defendant Tina Reganyan's Request for Judicial Notice is GRANTED. (See Evid. Code, S 452, subd. (d).) Plaintiff John Doe's evidentiary objections to the Declaration of Defendant Tina Reganyan are OVERRULED as to evidentiary objection numbers 1 and 2, and SUSTAINED as to evidentiary objection numbers 3 and 4. Defendant Tina Reganyan (Defendant Reganyan) moves...

Excerpt: ... CareRx, LLC's Form Interrogatories — General, Set One on or before January 19, 2024. Defendant VNA of Greater LA is ORDERED to serve full, complete, and verified responses to Plaintiff CareRx, LLC's to Plaintiff CareRx, LLC's Form Interrogatories — General, Set One on or before January 19, 2024. Defendant VNA of Orange County LLC is ORDERED to serve full, complete, and verified responses to Plaintiff CareRx, LLC's to Plaintiff CareRx, LLC's ...

Excerpt: ...trike under Anti-SLAPP is GRANTED. (See Evid. Code, S 452, subd. (c) [court may take judicial notice of "records of . .. any court of this state"].) Plaintiff Michelle Mathis' Request for Judicial Notice of Opposition to Special Motion to Strike Under Ant-SLAPP (C.C.P. S 425.16) is DENIED. Plaintiff fails to identify the attached documents or state the basis upon which they may be judicially notice. To the extent the documents are police reports ...

Excerpt: ... Services LP's Further Responses to Plaintiff's Second Set of Requests for Admission is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. Defendant Deloitte Services LP is ORDERED to serve full, complete, and verified responses to Plaintiff Judy P. Fisher's Second Set of Interrogatories, Special Interrogatories Numbers 46, 49, and 66-81 within 30 days of service of the notice of ruling. Defendant Deloitte Services LP is ORDERED to serve full, complete, and ver...

Excerpt: ...mplete, and verified responses to Plaintiff CareRx, LLC's Requests For Admission, Genuineness of Documents, Set One within 21 days of service of the notice of ruling. Defendant VNA of Orange County LLC is ORDERED to serve full, complete, and verified responses to Plaintiff CareRx, LLC's Requests For Admission, Genuineness of Documents, Set One within 21 days of service of the notice of ruling. Defendant Palomar Palliative & Hospice Care is ORDERE...

Excerpt: ...n for such relief, along with a memorandum and a declaration containing facts sufficient to justify the sealing. (Cal. Rules of Court, Rule 2.551, subd. he motion must be served on all parties, and unless the court orders otherwise, a complete copy of the document must be served on all other parties that already possess copies, along with the redacted version. (Cal. Rules of Court, Rule 2.551, subd. (b)(2).) To grant a motion to seal, the court m...

Excerpt: ... order that justice requires to protect any party or other natural person or organization from unwarranted annoyance, embarrassment, or oppression, or undue burden and expense. This protective order may include, but is not limited to, one or more of the following directions: . . . (6) That a trade secret or other confidential research, development, or commercial information not be disclosed or be disclosed only in a certain way. (Code Civ. Proc.,...

Excerpt: ...laint or crosscomplaint has been filed may object, by demurrer . to the pleading on any one or more of the following grounds: (a) The court has no jurisdiction or answer.. of the subject of the cause of action alleged in the pleading. (b) The person who filed the pleading does not have the legal capacity to sue. (c) There is another action pending between the same parties on the same cause of acton. (d) There is a defect or misjoinder of parties....

Excerpt: ...gal sufficiency of the affected pleading, not the truth of the factual allegations in the pleading or the pleader's ability to prove those allegations. (Cundiff v. GTE Cal. , Inc. (2002) 101 Cal.App.4th 1395, 1404-05.) For this reason, the court will not decide questions of fact on demurrer. (See Berryman v. Merit Prop. Mgmt., Inc. (2007) 152 Cal.App.4th 1544, 1556.) Instead, the court "treat[sl the demurrer as admitting all material facts proper...

Excerpt: ...(See Evid. Code, S 452, subd. (d).) Defendant HP Communications, Inc. (Defendant HP) moves for summary judgment on the Second Amended Complaint (SAC) filed by Plaintiff Sarah Huber. For the following reasons, the unopposed moton is granted. Standard for Summary Judgment or Summary Adjudication "Summary judgment shall be granted if all the papers submitted show that there is no triable issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is ent...

Excerpt: ...ute, Civ-l Procedure Code section 425.15. Basis for Award of Attornevs Fees and Costs Civil Procedure Code section 425.16 states that "a prevailing defendant on a [Anti-SLAPP] special motion to strike shall be entitled to recover that defendant's attorney's fees and costs." (Code Civ. Proc„ S 425.15, subd. (c)(l).) under this provision, "any SLAPP defendant who brings a successful moton to strike is entitled to mandatory attorney fees." (Ketchu...

Excerpt: ...he Documents and the Truth of the Matters Specified in Movants' Requests for Admission (Listed Below) Be Deemed Admitted. are taken OFF CALENDAR as moot. Defendant WLC I The Williams Law Corporation is ORDERED to payto Defendants Tryal Edmundson, Osbelia Edmundson, and Daniel Perales sanctions in the amount of $2,865.00 (7.0 hours x $375 per hour in reasonable attorney's fees and $240 in motion filing fees) within 30 days of service of the notice...

Excerpt: ...LC shall prepare a proposed judgment and serve it on Defendant Venice Development, Inc. dba Cadillac Hotel and Defendant Sris Sinnathamby and submit it to the court pursuant to Rules of Court Rule 3.1590(h). The Court finds good cause to allow Plaintiff 20 days from the date of this ruling to prepare, serve, and submit the proposed judgment. Plaintiff Quick Bridge Funding, LLC moves for summary judgment as to the Complaint filed by Plaintiff, or ...

Excerpt: ..., false, or improper matter inserted in any pleading or strike out all or any part of any pleading not drawn or filed in conformity with the laws of this state, a court rule, or an order of the court. (Code Civ. Proc., S 436.) "Irrelevant" matters include: allegations not essential to the claim, allegations neither pertinent to nor supported by an otherwise sufficient claim, or a demand for judgment requesting relief not supported by the allegati...

Excerpt: ... to himself for deposition at a mutually agreeable date and time, no later than 45 days after service of the notice of ruling and notice of Defendant Nancy Cheatham's payment of the filing fees for two additional motions to compel. The total time of all of the depositions of PlaintffTaylor Durkee shall not exceed 7 hours. Defendant Nancy Cheatham is ORDERED to pay filing fees for two additional motions to cornpA in the amount of $120 total. Defen...

Excerpt: ...ull, complete, and verified responses to Form Interrogatories— General, Set One and Special Interrogatories, Set One, within 50 days of service of the notice of ruling. The Court will hear from counsel for Plaintiff Cesar Monzon Orellana and Defendant Nieves Landscaping Inc. in a confidential setting regarding the request for sanctons. Defendant Nieves Landscaping Inc. moves to compel further responses to Form Interrogatories — General, Set O...

Excerpt: ...in 30 days of service of the notice of ruling. The Court ORDERS Defendant Melina Silvia Gallegos to pay to Plaintiff Dayse Leonor OrdonezBass sanctions in the amount of $1,250 (2.5 hours x $500 per hour in reasonable attornevs fees) within 30 days of service of the notce of ruling. Plaintiff Dayse Leonor Ordonez-Bass moves to compel responses from Defendant Melina Silvia Gallegos (Defendant Melina) to Plaintiff's First Set of Form Interrogatories...

Excerpt: ...tandard for Motion to Strike A court may strike out any irrelevant, false, or improper matter inserted in any pleading or strike out all or any part of any pleading not drawn or filed in conformity with the laws of this state, a court rule, or an order of the court. (Code Civ. Proc., S 436.) "Irrelevant" matters include: allegations not essential to the claim, allegations neither pertinent to nor supported by an otherwise sufficient claim, or a d...

Excerpt: ...or summary adjudication on the 1st, 3rd, and 4th Causes of Acton of the Complaint against Defendants Kemrick Transport, LLC (Defendant Kemrick) and Defendant Richard Christopher Glanville (Defendant Glanville). Standard for Summary Judgment or Summary Adjudication "Summary judgment shall be granted all the papers submitted show that there is no triable issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter o...

Excerpt: ...Standard for Leave to File Cross- Complaint Code of Civil Procedure Section 426.50 provides that A party who falls to plead a cause of achon subject to the requirements of this article, whether through oversight, inadvertence, mistake, neglect, or other cause, may apply to the court for leave to amend his pleading, or to file a cross-complaint, to assert such cause at any time during the course of the action. The court, after notice to the advers...

Excerpt: ...nce. Thus, Plaintiff was not given notice that John F. Ramey and RAMEY LAW, P.C. would not be representing her with sufficient time to appear or arrange for someone to appear on her behalf at the last case management conference. Therefore, the court will contnue the Order to Show Cause re: Failure to Appear and set a Case Management Conference to give sufficient time for Plaintiff to be given notce and to appear or arrange for someone to appear o...

Excerpt: ...es to Form Interrogatories — General (Set One) is GRANTED. Defendant Sabin Burrell is ORDERED to serve full, complete, and verified responses to Special Interrogatories (Set One) without objections within 30 days of service of the notice of ruling. Defendant John Beckman is ORDERED to serve full, complete, and verified responses to Requests for Production of Documents (Set One) without objections within 30 days of service of the notice of rulin...