Excerpt: ...tion of Business & Professions Code § 17200. Plaintiff alleges that Defendant owns psychiatric facilities and that non‐moving Defendants Okechukwu Nwangburkua and Iheoma Nwangburkua were owners, officers and managing agents. (Comp. ¶ 15.) Plaintiff alleged that he worked as the CEO and that as part of his employment agreement, in addition to his $150,000 salary, he was to be paid $36,000 per year for each additional facility that he opened or...

Excerpt: ...and 67 requests for admissions. Madden argues the discovery is excessive, duplicative, beyond the scope of discovery and unduly burdensome. The motion is supported by the Ritchey Declaration, in which counsel purports to authenticate several exhibits. The exhibits, however, are not attached. Madden's failure to file exhibits that it contends substantiate the motion is grounds for a denial. But even if Madden had filed a complete version of the mo...

Excerpt: ...es between August 7, 2016 and July 27, 2018 or the date the Court approves the settlement, whichever is earlier. The PAGA claims were premised on six alleged violations of Labor Code (e.g., failure to pay wages, failure to provide meal and rest breaks, failure to provide itemized wage statements). Approximately 323 employees suffered the alleged Labor Code violations during the relevant period. Plaintiff calculated Flowmaster's maximum potential ...

Excerpt: ...ounsel shall file all requests for judicial notice as separate documents pursuant to CRC 3.1113(l).) Plaintiff Sohrab Mansourian's (Mansourian) third amended complaint (TAC) filed without leave of court on 6/19/18 is STRICKEN. This is a dispute between attorney and client. Mansourian was the client. The SAC contains causes of action against one or both Defendants for breach of contract and negligence. Mansourian alleges Defendants misadvised him ...

Excerpt: ...raud and Conversion.” (Comp. Att. A.) Plaintiff alleges that pursuant to the will of Guy Wilson, he was entitled to possession of a “certain motor vehicle.” He alleges that Defendant intentionally and substantially interfered with his property by “fraudulently and by means of forgery taking possession and title to the vehicle and preventing Plaintiff from having access to the vehicle, and refusing to return the vehicle. Plaintiff did not ...

Excerpt: ...jurisdiction to consider the motion. (Lee v Placer Title Co. (1994) 28 Cal.App.4th 503, 509, 511.) Although the matter is dropped, the Court must also note that Plaintiff apparently sought to seal the entirety of her papers in opposition to the Defendants' motion for summary judgment as opposed to simply sealing the portions that specifically refer to her medical records/condition. While medical records are presumptively private and may afford a ...

Excerpt: ...urrer of defendants The Regents of the University of California (“Regents”), Tony Lai, M.D. (“Dr. Lai”), Alla Blinder, D.O. (“Dr. Blinder”) and Paul Kreis, M.D. (“Dr. Kreis”) (collectively “Defendants”) to the Second Amended Complaint (“2AC”) is OVERRULED in part and SUSTAINED in part, without leave to amend, as follows. *** If oral argument is requested in an attempt to obtain leave to amend, plaintiff shall be prepared t...

Excerpt: ...on against HMA: (1) violation of the Song Beverly Act (Civil Code § 1770 et seq.); (2) fraudulent concealment; and (3) fraudulent inducement. HMA demurs again to the second and third causes of action. The demurrer is sustained without leave to amend on the basis that the second and third causes of action fail to state facts sufficient to state a cause of action against HMA. (CCP § 430.10(e).) The demurrer is sustained for the reasons stated in ...

Excerpt: ...ed a complaint against Defendant/Cross‐Complainant. Defendant/CrossComplainant then filed a cross‐complaint against subcontractors related to the claims in Plaintiffs' complaint. Plaintiffs and Defendant have asserted numerous claims of construction defects related to the homes. Capital installed and inspected drywall in 53 of the homes. Capital denies any liability but settled with Defendant/CrossComplainant for $26,500 (53 homes at $500...

Excerpt: ...hat its settlement with Plaintiff Elk Grove Milling Inc. (Elk Grove) is in good faith. The settlement requires Airco to pay Elk Grove $67,500. It also requires Airco to cooperate with Elk Grove in the remaining litigation by (1) producing witnesses at deposition and/or trial without a subpoena, (2) providing nonprivileged information and documents not previously provided, and (3) producing employees at a meeting with Elk Grove's counsel, not to e...

Excerpt: ...but defendant never made any payments on these bills which were subsequently assigned by SCIF to plaintiff for collection. Plaintiff now moves for summary judgment/adjudication on its two causes of action on the grounds that plaintiff has established each element of its causes of action and defendant has no defense. The Court finds that plaintiff has satisfied its initial burden under Code of Civil Procedure §437c(p)(1), which thereby shifts the...

Excerpt: ...orney against whom the sanction is sought, and specify the type of sanction sought.” Defendant Garzon has filed a statement of non‐opposition to this motion to compel his deposition, although he contends plaintiff's request for sanctions should be denied for various reasons. In light of the foregoing, plaintiff's motion to compel this deposition is granted. The parties shall meet‐and‐confer to find a mutually agreeable date, time and loca...

Excerpt: ...customers stopped using plaintiff's managed IT network services during the year defendant resigned. Plaintiff contends one customer was billed for services by defendant's new company while he was still employed by plaintiff. Defendant contends that he merely informed his customers that he had left employment with plaintiff and started his own company. Plaintiff contends that the identity of its customers is a trade secret, including their...

Excerpt: ...f patients' bill of rights against defendants Plum Healthcare Group, LLC and Oleander Holdings, LLC dba Sacramento Post‐Acute (collectively, “Defendants”). Plaintiffs filed their First Amended Complaint on March 22, 2016. Defendants filed a petition to compel arbitration on February 18, 2016, which this Court denied on April 6, 2016. Defendants appealed this decision and this matter was stayed on June 7, 2016, pending resolution of the appe...

Excerpt: ... to a Government or Law Enforcement Agency and Disability Discrimination. Plaintiff complained that her co‐ worker was using dirty scopes on patients and Dignity determined after investigation that plaintiff was not cleaning her scopes. Plaintiff alleges she was terminated due to her complaint and a physical disability. CCP 1987.1 provides: (a) If a subpoena requires the attendance of a witness or the production of books, documents, electronica...

Excerpt: ...rike is DENIED. If a party desires to receive the same relief as another party and files papers "joining" another party's motion, the court will not consider the papers to be a separate motion and will not grant relief to the party joining the motion unless that party has complied with all procedural requirements for the filing of motions, including payment of filing fees, proper notice, format of motion and method of service. (Sacram...

Excerpt: ...ted a written claim to the public entity. (Govt. Code sec. 905, 945.4.) For claims involving injury to a person, claims must be presented to the public entity within six months of the accrual of the cause of action Govt. Code sec. 911.2(a). Failure to present the claim is a bar to the cause of action. In other words, the Act requires the timely presentation of a written claim for money or damages directly to a public entity, and the rejection of ...

Excerpt: ...uction No. 1 is granted/denied as set forth below. Defendant left his employment with plaintiff in 2013 and started his own IT support firm. Plaintiff contends that eleven of plaintiff's current customers stopped using plaintiff's managed IT network services during the year defendant resigned. Plaintiff contends one customer was billed for services by defendant's new company while he was still employed by plaintiff. Defendant contends...

Excerpt: ...that she was never served on May 26, 2010 with the summons and complaint. The proof of service by the registered process server states that Defendant was served by substitute service at 812 Arthur Drive, West Sacramento. The person was served was Helen M. Lands, co‐defendant, who is described as her co‐ tenant and mother. (See Proof of service ROA No. 7) The return of process or notice, made by a registered process server (see California Busi...

Excerpt: ...nied. Defendant's Request for Judicial Notice is granted. Defendant's Objection to Evidence is sustained. In any event, the declaration is irrelevant to the issue to be decided in this motion. On May 24, 2018 the Court ordered that the request for $115,000 in damages in the FAC be stricken on a motion to strike. Although the Court could have merely deemed the language stricken from the FAC without the need for an Amended Answer, the Court...

Excerpt: ...009 and the default judgment entered on July 22, 2010 is denied. Plaintiff's Request for Judicial Notice is granted. Plaintiffs in this action sued defendant alleging substandard housing at a residence they rented from defendant at 8005 Sunset Avenue in Fair Oaks, California. A default judgment was obtained against defendant for the amount of $75,000 for each plaintiff, for a total of $150,000 at a default prove up hearing before the Hon. Kev...

Excerpt: ...eeks to set aside a default entered March 6, 2017 and a default judgment entered August 24, 2017 pursuant to CCP 473.5 and CCP 473(d). Pursuant to CCP 473.5, a party may move to set aside a default or default judgment within two years of the entry if they can establish that they had no actual notice of the lawsuit in time to file an Answer, even in cases where the substituted service was technically proper. Under CCP 473(d),"[t]he court may, ...

Excerpt: ...with her subsequent employer is GRANTED. CCP 1987.1 This is an employment action in which plaintiff alleges causes of action for Retaliation for Disclosure of Information to a Government or Law Enforcement Agency and Disability Discrimination. Plaintiff complained that her co‐worker was using dirty scopes on patients and Dignity determined after investigation that plaintiff was not cleaning her scopes. Plaintiff alleges she was terminated due t...

Excerpt: ...mplaint is denied. Plaintiff has filed a Third Amended Complaint on June 14, 2018 and defendant has a pending demurrer to that pleading, set for hearing on August 3, 2018. Thus, this motion is moot as it is addressed to an inoperative pleading. To be clear, an amendatory pleading supersedes the original one, which ceases to perform any function as a pleading. Thus, an amended complaint supersedes all prior complaints. The amended complaint furnis...

Excerpt: ... in Welfare & Institutions Code §15610.57)" (TAC, ¶64.) These phrases are included in the wrongful death cause of action. According to Regents, Plaintiff is improperly attempting to base her wrongful death cause of action on the elder abuse statute, when both are separate and distinct causes of action. Regent insists that Plaintiff is "redefin[ing]" the term "neglect" from its common understanding to the statutory Elder Abus...