Excerpt: ... $2,452.15 for a total request of $36,412.15. A verified fee bill is prima facie evidence the costs, expenses, and services listed were necessarily incurred. (Hadley v. Krepel (1985) 167 Cal.App.3d 677, 682.) Furthermore, a declaration attesting to the accuracy of the fee bill is presumed credible. (Horsford v. Board of Trustees of California State University (2005) 132 Cal.App.4th 359, 396.) Civil Code section 1794(d) provides that “[i]f the b...

Excerpt: ... Cal. App. 2d 910, 915.) “The allegation that a corporation is the alter ego of the individual stockholders is insufficient to justify the court in disregarding the corporate entity in the absence of allegations of facts from which it appears that justice cannot otherwise be accomplished.” (Leek v. Cooper (2011) 194 Cal. App. 4th 399, 414.) The allegation must “include facts showing a unity of interest and a resultant injustice, prerequisit...

Excerpt: ...f $10,000.00 to be posted forthwith. Plaintiff to prepare the order and give notice. Defendant Mark Holt, M.D., Inc. signed two different promissory notes in favor of Plaintiffs Surender Vuthoori, M.D. and Surender Vuthoori, M.D., Inc. To secure payment of the Note Defendant executed Security Agreements. The Security Agreements executed to secure both notes covered all assets, including furniture, fixtures and equipment used in the business of De...

Excerpt: ...aintiff did not plead facts or circumstances that indicate exhaustion would be futile or that an administrative process under IDEA could not provide at least some of the remedies she is seeking. As to the seventh and eight causes of action, the Demurrers are SUSTAINED WITH LEAVE TO AMEND. Government Code section 910 et. seq., identifies several requirements for the contents of a government claim and procedures for filing the claim with a governme...

Excerpt: ...nder the circumstances of the case. “To be valid, a section 998 offer must be made in good faith, which requires that the offer of settlement be ‘realistically reasonable under the circumstances of the particular. . .'” A token or nominal offer made with no reasonable prospect of acceptance will not pass the good faith test. Page 2 of 2 “[W]hen a party obtains a judgment more favorable than its pretrial offer, [the offer] is presumed to h...

Excerpt: ... Impac Funding's evidentiary objections are OVERRULED as immaterial. The Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED. Impac Funding meets its initial burden to demonstrate that Plaintiff's Loan was not table funded, and Plaintiff fails to raise a triable issue of fact as to whether the sale of his Loan was anything but a bona fide transaction. More importantly, even assuming that the Loan was part of a table‐funded transaction, there is no authority...

Excerpt: ...rty to the first cause of action for cancellation of instruments. BANA has never had an interest in the Note and DOT and is not a successor to any instrument that Plaintiff seeks to cancel. See Miller & Starr, Cal. Real Estate (4th Ed. 2016), § 40:113; Lord v. Luse (1931) 214 Cal. 10, 11; Consolidated Concessions Co. v. McConnell (1919) 40 Cal.App. 443, 444‐45. Moreover, the entire basis for Plaintiff's cancellation claim – that Plaintiff's ...

Excerpt: ...r § 2923.5(e)(1), but also that Plaintiff responded to Lewis's correspondence. Further, the factual basis for Plaintiff's contract‐based claims (second and third causes of action) is entirely inaccurate and ignores the salient provisions of the Note. Contrary to Plaintiff's argument, Lewis did not accelerate Plaintiff's loan; rather, as evidenced by the Notice, the loan fully matured and the final balloon payment had come due. Plaintiff's four...

Excerpt: ... do not expect to be ready by that date, when would plaintiffs estimate that plaintiffs would be ready for trial? 4. Regarding the defendant's desire to move for a judgment on the pleadings based on the judgment in the Herpel case: a. Are the plaintiffs in this case in privity with the plaintiffs in Herpel, even though no class was every certified in Herpel? b. Do all of the plaintiffs in this action hold leasehold interests in the trust lands of...

Excerpt: ... 10, 2018 regarding receipt of proper verifications. FedEx does not dispute receiving the supplemental responses, in Reply it asserts the verifications of Josephine and Raymond Ramirez are improper. CCP § 446 requires a party to state that the information is true of his own knowledge, except as to the matters which are therein stated on his or her information or belief, and as to those matters that he or she believes it to be true. The verificat...

Excerpt: ... v. Berquist Construction Co. (1994) 24 Cal.App.4th 1426, 1444.) Where a party contends that a judgment is valid on its face but void for lack of proper service, it is similar to C.C.P. §473.5 relief, and must be sought within 2 years. (Trackman v. Kenney (2010) 187 Cal.App.4th 175, 181.) Based on the Declaration of defendant Veit, the presumption of valid service on defendant ORZ Corp., was rebutted. The Statement of Information which Plaintiff...

Excerpt: ... inability to locate Beltz for service. Plaintiff states he has now been able to locate Beltz. Procedurally, this motion is improper per CCP 1005(b) since Beltz was not given notice. Plaintiff has acknowledged that defect and attempted to remedy it with a late service of FedEx mail and a request to continued. Substantively the motion is lacking in stating any legal authority, statutory or case law have would support a granting of the relief he se...

Excerpt: ...ined former defendant City of Moreno Valley's Demurrer to Plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint without leave to amend. The Court ruled that Plaintiffs did not sufficiently allege facts that could permit the finder of fact to conclude that the City's crosswalk was a dangerous condition of public property. The allegations of Plaintiffs' Third Amended Complaint do not add material or substantial facts which under which the finder of fact could now c...

Excerpt: ... claim for recovery of medical expenses because he waived the claim by bringing the present action as the guardian ad litem for his son. Moving Defendant's request for judicial notice is granted pursuant to Evidence Code Section 452(c). Liability for medical care is not limited to medical doctors and that paragraph 5 of the complaint adequately alleges that those engaged in the practice of medicine and those providing healthcare failed to use the...

Excerpt: ... (“CPRA”), this code section provides that “state and local law enforcement agencies shall disclose the names and addresses of persons involved in, or witnesses other than confidential informants to, the incident, the description of any property involved, the date, time, and location of the incident, all diagrams, statements of the parties involved in the incident, the statements of all witnesses, other than confidential informants, to the ...

Excerpt: ...tatus. Once the complaint is amended to reflect Burnett's true capacity, the additional generic references to “defendants” on pages 5, 6, and 7 of the complaint will be properly alleged. ...

Excerpt: ..., even assuming that Autry could revoke or be entitled to a refund of her charitable donation (i.e., the $5,000), Plaintiffs offer no explanation as to how the banking records would demonstrate that her particular donation was misdirected or why Plaintiffs should be entitled to discover the personal banking information for Louise and Gentile. Lastly, Plaintiffs offer no explanation as to how the banking records will demonstrate the extent of dama...

Excerpt: ... in the amount of $61,615 on 8/28/17. Thereafter, on 9/29/17 Jerome quitclaimed over real property located in Palm Desert in favor of himself as Trustee of the Dolores Adelman Separate Property Trust. Jerome has been named individually as a defendant as well as trustee. The transfer was allegedly made to defraud Ronald as judgment creditor; therefore the transfer should be void. Ronald asserts that these allegations are sufficient to support puni...

Excerpt: ...or Admissions (“RFAs”) and form interrogatories that addressed the identity of the party Oliver contracted with. Oliver responded specifically to several interrogatories that Oliver contracted with Jack's Body Works', Inc. and admitted in RFAs that Jack Jackson is not a party to the contract. Oliver now seeks to withdraw his admissions to RFAs Nos. 2, 3 and 4 and amend his interrogatory responses. For the following reasons, the motion is gran...

Excerpt: ...l Procedure section 1019.5, forthwith. The motion to expunge lis pendens was filed 1/12/18 and was set to be heard on 2/6/18. On 1/31/18 Plaintiff filed a notice of withdrawal of lis pendens and on 2/1/18 dismissed his complaint. Accordingly, the motion to expunge lis pendens is moot in light of the withdrawal of lis pendens. As to the request for attorney's fees and costs, Code of Civil Procedure section 405.38 provides that “the court shall d...

Excerpt: ...ty to meet and confer with the opposing party before filing a motion for judgment on the pleadings. Page 2 of 2 This Court's CMO entered on February 28, 2018 requires the moving party to “strictly comply” with CCP § 439. (CMO, § B, ¶ 6.a.) The CMO further requires that declaration by the moving party describe the meet and confer efforts, including the date of the meeting, whether it was in person or by telephone, the persons involved, and ...

Excerpt: ...e to timely file case management conference statements. Defendant David Mount is to give notice pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 1019.5, forthwith. Page 2 of 2 Relief is mandatory. “(W)henever an application for relief is made no more than six months after entry of judgment, is in proper form, and is accompanied by an attorney's sworn affidavit attesting to his or her mistake, inadvertence, surprise or neglect, (the court shall) ...

Excerpt: ...demnity. The moving papers were untimely served on Defendants Mission Linen and Adam Hudson as they were required to be served on or before January 14, 2018, but were served via mail outside of California (adds 10 calendar days pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section1005(b)) on January 9, 2018. Accordingly, service was deemed complete on January 19, 2018, which is less than 75 calendar days prior to the scheduled hearing date of April 2, 2018...

Excerpt: ...¶ 5.b. of counsel's declaration does not explain the number of weeks during which the plaintiff was allegedly deprived of breaks. ¶ 5.c. does not explain the number of months in which she used her car. ¶ 5.d. does not explain the calculation of the value of that claim at all. 2. The declaration of counsel does not address E.5.a.(ii). 3. The declaration of counsel states that the defendant produced pay records for other relief sales representat...

Excerpt: ...ect to a criminal proceeding; the privilege against self‐incrimination is personal to an individual criminal defendant and does not apply to co‐defendants in a civil action. See Avant! Corp. v. Superior Court (2000) 79 Cal.App.4th 876, 886‐87. Further, an evaluation of the factors set forth in Avant! Corp. does not favor a stay: (1) Plaintiffs have a strong interest in proceeding expeditiously; (2) any threatened infringement on the privile...