Excerpt: ...February 10, 2022 at 1:30 pm. Appearance will be by ZOOM. Department 53 Zoom ID is: 841 204 6267. To appear on Zoom by phone, call (888) 475‐4499 or (877) 853‐5257 (toll‐free) and enter 841 204 6267#. Appearance is required. Defendants Ralph Diaz, et al.'s motion for an order requiring Plaintiff Allen Hammler to Post Security pursuant to CCP § 391.1 is granted. Defendants' request for judicial notice is granted. As seen from the request, P...

Excerpt: ...rous Defendants including Defendant David Smith, M.D., resulted in the Decedent's death. By way of the instant motion, Plaintiff seeks an order quashing certain deposition subpoenas for the production of business records issued by Defendant David Smith. The subpoenas are directed to Plaintiff's former employers ‐‐ the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The subject subpoenas seek “[a]ny and all documents related to...

Excerpt: ...STEP”). Plaintiff alleges that STEP committed numerous Labor Code violations. On December 2, 2020, this Court granted STEP's petition to compel arbitration of Plaintiff's individual and class claims and to stay the action. Plaintiff now seeks leave to file a first amended complaint adding a single cause of action seeking penalties pursuant to the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (“PAGA”). Plaintiff has not, however, made any motion to ...

Excerpt: ...sly rejected Pacific Pride's request to continue because it failed to follow the proper procedures to request a continuance. (ROA 67) Despite its claim that a continuance would promote judicial economy, Pacific Pride set the motion for this date, an opposition was filed premised on this date, and the Court has prepared the ruling on this motion for this date. This action arises out of an incident on February 8, 2019 in which Defendant Jose Luis R...

Excerpt: ...ht homes. The names, addresses, and purchaser status of the proposed plaintiffs are identified in Exhibit 1 to the declaration of Haejung Kim. Plaintiffs allege the proposed plaintiffs are proper to join this action based on the common nexus of law and fact with Plaintiffs who also own homes originally construed by developer Lennar Homes of California, Inc. Plaintiffs argue that joinder will save the Court and all parties significant time, resour...

Excerpt: ...nor Travelers Indemnity Company of Connecticut (“Travelers”) on behalf of Cross‐Defendant Zayas, Incorporated, a suspended California corporation, sued herein as Zayas, Inc. (“Zayas”) (collectively, “Contractor Defendant/Cross‐Defendants”) and Plaintiff The Regents of the University of California is UNOPPOSED and is GRANTED. The notice of motion does not provide notice of the Court's tentative ruling system as required by Local Ru...

Excerpt: ...o or video, in the event Defendant appears without following the procedures set forth in Local Rule 1.06(B). Plaintiff's request for judicial notice is granted. In taking judicial notice of these documents, the court accepts the fact of their existence, not the truth of their contents. (See Professional Engineers v. Dep't of Transp. (1997) 15 Cal.4th 543, 590 [judicial notice of findings of fact does not mean that those findings of fact are true]...