Excerpt: ...e an amended answer no later than November 20, 2023. Cross- complainants FXIO International, Inc.'s and Plan B Equipment Rentals, LLC's Request for Judicial Notice is DENIED as irrelevant. (Licudine v. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (2016) 3 Cal.App.5th 881, 902 ["trial court retains its usual discretion not to take judicial notice of matters that are irrelevant"].) As a preliminary matter, the notice of demurrer provides the incorrect address for t...

Excerpt: ...ifth cause of Action by Ford is OVERRULED based on failure to allege facts sufficient to support this claim. The elements of a cause of action for fraud based on concealment are: "(1) the defendant must have concealed or suppressed a material fact, (2) the defendant must have been under a duty to disclose the fact to the plaintiff, (3) the defendant must have intentionally concealed or suppressed the fact with the intent to defraud the plaintiff,...

Excerpt: ...oena issued to its appraiser, Christopher Carneghi, on the grounds that any expert witness discovery in this case is premature, and discovery of Mr. Carneghi's work as a consulting expert concerning his appraisals is protected by attorney work-product privilege. Defendants respond that "Carneghi must be made available as a fact witness so that he may testify about the physical descriptions of all the lots that he perceived." (Opp., p.13.) Accordi...

Excerpt: ...rovide Lessor with a copy of a Use Permit issued by the City of South San Francisco for such use or alternatively to provide evidence, reasonably satisfactory to Lessor, that no such Use Permit is required." ("Failure to Obtain a Use Permit (3-Day Notice at 2.) The motion is denied as to all other grounds argued in the motion because triable issues of material fact exist as to those grounds. (3-Day Notice at 1- 2, 3 & 4.) A. The Motion Does not E...

Excerpt: ...ynor"), an individual and managing member and offcer of BWC. The Cross-complaint alleges causes of action for breach of fiduciary duty, intentional misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, and declaratory relief. Raynor now demurs to the Cross- Complaint and moves to strike certain parts of the pleading. Cross-Defendant's Motion to Strike A motion to strike can be used as a scalpel to cut out any irrelevant, false, or improper matters in a...

Excerpt: ...mber 1, 2023. Defendants demur that these causes of action fail to state facts sufficient to support a claim because Plaintiff Edgewater Holding Corporation has not alleged facts sufficient to support its performance or excuse for nonperformance under the contract. Specifically, Defendants assert that Plaintiff must allege that it first obtained a determination that the damages sued for are not covered by insurance before it may bring these claim...

Excerpt: ...AY, NOVEMBER 6, 2023. HOWEVER, THE HEARING ON THE MOTION IS CONTINUED TO NOVEMBER 14, 2023 AT 2:00 P.M. FOR ARGUMENT. IF THE TENTATIVE IS NOT CONTESTED, IT WILL BE ADOPTED AT THE NOVEMBER 14, 2023 AT P.M. HEARING. THERE WILL BE NO LAW AND MOTION HEARING ON NOVEMBER 7, 2023. The court rules on plaintiff Michael Joseph Barrett's moton to compel further responses to plaintiff's form interrogatories, set 3 from defendant Jorge Morales and to strike o...

Excerpt: ... Owner, LLC ("Plaintiff" or "The Marina"). Plaintiff and, collectively, the five Defendants brought cross-motions for summary judgment. Plaintiff partially settled with four of the five defendants, leaving Defendant Matthew Klein ("Defendant" or "Klein") the sole remaining Defendant in the action. The Court granted summary judgment for Plaintiff against Klein and entered the Judgment following its Order Granting Summary Judgment on June 29, 2023....

Excerpt: ...t to Cal. Evidence Code Section 452(d). Fourteenth COA for Breach of Fiduciary Duty OVERRULED. The SAC alleges that Defendant Hillhouse had authority and control over Plaintiff's finances, books, records and accounting documents, and that she handled Plaintiff's money and was entrusted to handle the finances at Plaintiff's law practice. SAC, "5, 171. It also alleges that Defendant Hillhouse had control and access to Plaintiff's American Express C...

Excerpt: ...Anthony L Webb shall file his Third Amended Complaint no later than December 4, 2023. As a preliminary matter, the demurrer is made on behalf of Defendants Private Defender Program Office ("PDPO"), Lisa Maguire, and Paul Demeester. However, Maguire and Demeester were dismissed on October 27, 2023. The portion of the demurrer made by them is thus moot, and only the portion of the demurrer made by POPO is relevant here. Though the five causes of ac...

Excerpt: ...deration, and DENIED in part, with respect to the request to terminate arbitration. Plaintiff's objections to evidence are OVERRULED. In ruling on the previous Moton to Compel Arbitration in this action, the Court held that the issue of default under Cal. Code of Civil Procedure Section 1281.98 for late payment of fees should be decided by the arbitrator. June 10, 2022 Order. Plaintiff asks for that order to be vacated, or in the alternative for ...

Excerpt: ...e Cal. Rules of Ct., rule 3.1300(d); Rancho Mirage Country Club Homeowners Association v. Hazelbaker (2016) 2 cal.App.5th 252, 262-253; Juarez v. wash Depot Holdings, Inc. (2018) 24 cal.App.5th 1197, 1202.) The motion was previously continued to permit Defendant Tesla, Inc. ("Tesla") the opportunity to file br-efing and evidence in reply. Thus, with any potential prejudice now having been averted, the Court has considered Xue's late-filed papers....

Excerpt: ...tic Park project. Plaintiff claims that Defendant owes $27,018.10 for trucking services and $6,400.00 for tolls, dump fees, and scale fees which Plaintiff advanced. Plaintiff now applies to this Court for a right to attach order and writ of attachment, seeking to secure the amount of $38,759.91. For the reasons set forth below, Plaintiff's application is DENIED. The Court shall consider the showing made by the parties and shall issue a right to a...

Excerpt: ...party or his or her legal representative from a judgment, dismissal, order, or other proceeding taken against him or her through his or her mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect." (Code of Civ. Proc., S 473, subd. Here, Plaintiff TGA F299 Franklin LLC ("TGA") requests relief from the recent adopted tentatve ruling sustaining Defendants Urban Flat, LLC's and Evan Haskell's demurrer to the Second Amended Complaint and granting leave...

Excerpt: ...AINED WITH LEAVE TO AMEND based on failure to allege facts sufficient to support a cause of action and uncertainw. Generally, a writ under secton 1085 may only be employed to compel the performance of a duty which is purely ministerial in character. (Transdyn/cresci v. City and County of San Francisco (1999) 72 Cal.App.4th 746, 752.) "A ministerial act is an act that a public officer is required to perform in a prescribed manner in obedience to t...

Excerpt: ...ng possession of real property, a motion for summary judgment may be made at any time after the answer is filed upon giving five days notice, and shall be granted or denied on the same basis as a motion under Section 437c. Cal. Code of Civil Procedure Section 1170.7. Cal. Code of Civil Procedure Section 437c(b)(1) provides that an MS] "shall be supported by affidavits, declarations, admissions, answers to interrogatories, depositions, and matters...

Excerpt: ...ly filed. ld. at S 2031.300. A court may grant relief from waiver if: (1) the party belatedly serves a response substantially compliant with CCP SS 2031.210-2031.240, 2031.280, and (2) filing a noticed motion supported by declarations showing that the delay resulted from mistake, inadvertence, or excusable neglect. ld. Under Local Rule 3.700, parties to a general civil case must participate in an Informal Discovery Conference (IDC) prior to filin...

Excerpt: ... allege causes of action for elder abuse, negligence, wrongful death, and survivorship. Defendants now mcwe to com#l arbitration, arguing that an arbitration agreement signed on behalf of Decedent contractually binds the parties to adjudicate these claims in binding arbitration. The arbitration agreement at issue is its own agreement, though it was kept together with other paperwork governing Decedent's admission to the facility as a resident. Ga...

Excerpt: ... Pacifica, LLC, Vistamar Development, and Javier Chavarria's (real parties) motion to vacate order granting attorney's fees, filed October 2, 2023 pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section (the notice states section 633, but the motion states 663, which is the statute dealing with motions to vacate judgment), which seeks to vacate, in part, the Court's August 29, 2023 minute order granting (in part) petitioners' motion for attorney's fees pursu...

Excerpt: ...rt, rule 1312 and exercising its discretion. The court starts its analysis with the well- established law that trial dates are firm. "To ensure the prompt of civil cases, the dates assigned for a trial are firm. All parties and their counsel must regard the date set for trial as certain." (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.1332.) "It is the duty of the trial court to vigorously insist upon cases being heard and decided in the most timely manner unless ...

Excerpt: ... to comply with court orders compelling discovery, including ordering him to appear at deposition, which has resulted in evidence sanctions, and failed to pay monetary discovery sanctons. This court has already issued the following sanctons against defendant: 1. A June 2, 2022 Order compelling further responses to request for production, form interrogatories, and request for admissions, and ordering sanctions of and a January 10, 2023, Order impo...

Excerpt: ...d the motion until October 31, 2023, five days after the stay is lifted. If the bankruptcy stay is still in effect at the time of the hearing, the court will take the motion off calendar for plaintiff to re-noäce the motion. The court's tentative is to GRANT plaintiff's motion for summary judgment. (Code of Civ. Proc., S 437c.) This is the same tentative that the court issued for the October 17, 2023 hearing. Code of Civil Procedure section 437c...

Excerpt: ... remaining defendant in the action. According to the Complaint, defendant agreed to rent the premises on or about November 24, 2014, pursuant to a written rental agreement with plaintiff's predecessor-in-interest, at a monthly rent of $2,51N03, she has failed to pay rent but continues to hold over even after service of the three-day notice to quit or cure. On September 7, 2023, the court entered an order deeming admissions admitted and for sancto...

Excerpt: ...volving class and PAGA claims, this Court has a duty to independently determine whether a settlement is fair, reasonable and adequate. (Moniz v. Adecco USA, Inc. (2021) 72 Cal.App.5th 56, 76—77 ["trial court should evaluate a PAGA settlement to determine whether it is fair, reasonable, and adequate in view of PAGA's purposes to remediate present labor law violations, deter future ones, and to maximize enforcement of state labor laws." ] ; Kulla...

Excerpt: ...int to see whether they state a cause of action under any legal theory, as a matter of law. (New Livable Cal. v. Associaton of Bay Area Gov'ts (2020) 59 Cal.App.5th 709, 714—715; Genis v. Schainbaum (2021) 65 Cal.App.5th 1007, 1014.) The demurrer may be made to the entire complaint or to any of the cause of action therein. (Code of Civ. Proc., S 430.50, subd. (a).) To properly state a cause of action, a complaint must allege every element of th...

Excerpt: ...tes that Defendant's counsel's meet and confer declaration states that the parties met and conferred via email. (Schultz Decl., '1 2.) However, CCP S 430.41 requires the parties to meet and confer "in person or by telephone." Any subsequent failure to file a meet and confer declaration will result in the matter being ordered off calendar. Defendant demurs to Plaintiff's Third Cause of Acton for Breach of Implied Warranties of Fitness and Merchant...

Excerpt: ...laintiff's request for attorney's fees on the grounds that Plaintiff has not stated any grounds for recovery of fees, except for Plaintiff's Third Cause of Acton for violation of Civil Code 1790, et.seq. Because Plaintiff has not stated a claim for violation of the Song-Beverly Act, Plaintiff has not asserted any viable claim for recovery of attorney's fees. Accordingly, Defendant's moton to strike Plaintiff's claim for attorney's fees is GRANTED...

Excerpt: ...e absence of any extrinsic evidence, the Court may "determine the parties' intentions as disclosed by the lease itself, looking at the plain language" of the contract, "viewed within the lease as a whole." (Frittelli, Inc. v. 350 N. Canon Drive, LP (2011) 202 Cal.App.4th 35, 44.) Although Paragraph 9 is titled "Indemnification of Lessor" and includes language of indemnification, the first sentence of Paragraph 9 is tantamount to an exculpatory cl...

Excerpt: ...ng that interest on the judgment would accrue at 10% per annum from the date of entry until paid. Matrix now moves the Court to amend the judgment to add Vitaly Golomb ("Golomb"), the sole owner and officer of Plaintiff Time Traveller, Inc. ("Time Traveller" or "Plaintiff") as a judgment debtor pursuant to California Code of Civil Procedure ("CCP") S 187. For the reasons set forth below, the motion is GRANTED. CCP S 187 empowers the trial court t...

Excerpt: ...ntiff") moves the Court to impose a nonmonetary sanction under CCP S 128.7 by striking the eight affirmative defenses put forth in Defendant Ampex Engineering and Construction Inc. ("Ampex" or "Defendant"). According to Plaintiff, the sanctions are warranted because Defendant's affirmative defenses are meritless and insuffciently supported by legal or factual argument and evidentiary support. A CCP S 128.7 motion involves strict adherence to a tw...

Excerpt: ... person or by telephone. See Cal. Code of Civ. Proc. Section 430.41. The Court, in its discretion, has ruled on the merits of the Demurrer. In future, any demurrer that is not supported by a code compliant meet and confer declaration may be ordered off calendar until a compliant declaration is filed. Defendant contends that Plaintiff's Opposition was untimely served. Reply 1:19-25. While the Opposition was timely filed, it was served via regular ...

Excerpt: ...or Plaintiff in July 27, 2023. Although Jones presented evidence that she was on maternity leave from March 28, 2023 to June 26, 2023, there is no valid excuse or explanation from the other two attorneys as to why they did not take action on behalf of Plaintiff. Indeed, Plaintiff's counsel were able to promptly file and serve the Second Amended Complaint on April 21, 2023 in the midst of Jones' maternity leave. It is further puzzling, because the...

Excerpt: ...ended Complaint for the fifth cause of action. Defendant's Demurrer to the fifth cause of action to the extent that it claims fraudulent concealment of a defective battery know to be defective at the tme of sale of the vehicle is SUSTAINED WITH LEAVE TO AMEND. Contrary to the Code of Civil Procedure, Plaintiff fails to s#cifically allege the amount of damages claimed under this cause of achon for fraud. Further, Plaintiff fails to identify a sing...

Excerpt: ...NG: Joel Drotts brings this petition for writ of mandate requesting that this court order the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to cease applying Vehicle Code section 13352, subdivision (hereinafter all statutory references are to the Vehicle Code) in an arbitrary and capricious manner found to violate his right to equal protection under the law in accordance with Code of Civil Procedure section 1085. (Amended Opening Brief and Pleading for Writ...

Excerpt: .... This court must: (1) "identify the issues framed by the pleadings because the court's sole function on a motion for summary judgment is to determine from the submitted evidence whether there is a 'triable issue as to any material fact;' " (2) determine whether the moving party has met its statutory burden of proof under Code of Civil Procedure section 437c, subdivision (o); if the moving party has met statutory burden of proof, determine whethe...

Excerpt: ...worked in California for Defendant Sutter Bay Hospitals between July 20, 2015 and January 31, 2023. On April 25, 2023, this court gave preliminary approval to the class and PAGA settlement plaintiffs and defendant. As set forth in the Declaration of Cassandra Polites on behalf of the claims administrator, Ilym Group, Inc. (Ilym), on July 21, 2023, in accordance with the preliminary approval order, Ilyrn mailed out the approved class notices to 22...

Excerpt: ...inds that the motion was timely filed. A motion for reconsideration generally must be brought "within 10 days after service upon the party of written notice of entry of the order..." (Code of Civ. Proc., S 1008 subd. (a).) The notice of entry of order was served by email on September 15, 2023 and the moton was filed on September 27, 2023, making the motion timely when adding the two days for the electronic service. The court denies the motion for...

Excerpt: ...r Judicial Notice (RJN) is GRAN ED. (Evid. Code Sect. 452(c).) Background. Plaintiff's 11-17-22 FAC alleges that Plaintiff Mboma started working as an for Defendant DPR Constructon in 2020. Plaintiff alleges that Defendants discriminated against her due to her race/national origin and her pregnancy/sex, that Defendants harassed and retaliated against her, and ultmately terminated her. Plaintiff's FAC asserted 20 total causes of action, six (6) of...

Excerpt: ...uction Inc. ("Ampex" or "Defendant") is an employer required under the California Labor Code to carry workers' compensation insurance. According to the Complaint, Defendant obtained this coverage from State Compensation Insurance Fund ("SCIF") but failed to pay the amounts requested on SCIF's "premium bills" or "final audit statements" covering the period of June 6, 2016 to November 26, 2018. SCIF sent three "premium bills" to Ampex: a bill for $...

Excerpt: ...(FAC) does not relate back to the filing of the original complaint because the FAC is based on a primary right different from the one pleaded in the original complaint. The argument is unpersuasive. Relevant to this demurrer, Defendant makes two (1) Entwio, which contains the antibody vedolizumab, which binds to a protein identified as a4ß7 and (2) a product (unnamed in the pleadings) that contains an antibody that binds to a protein identified ...

Excerpt: ...e had an Informal Discovery Conference ("IDC") with the Court. Here, no IDC was conducted in this action prior to Plaintiff's August 7, 2023 Motion to Quash. The Motion is subject to denial for this reason, as well as on its merits. Medical Records Subpoena Defendant's medical records subpoenas seek medical records including: All written and electronic medical documents pertaining to the history, care, treatment and/or examination of Wisam Ibrahi...

Excerpt: ...tion of this claim alleged in his First Amended Cross-complaint. A crosscomplainant meets his or her burden of showing there is no defense to a cause of action if that party proves each element of the cause of action entitling the party to judgment on the cause of action. Civ. Proc. S 437c(p)(1).) Once the cross-complainant meets that burden, the burden shifts to the cross- defendant to show that a triable issue of one or more material facts exis...

Excerpt: ...how that (1) the plaintiff was in actual peaceful possession of the premises at the time of the entry; (2) a forcible entry has ucurred: i.e„ either that the entry was nonconsensual or not pursuant to "orderly legal pruess;" (3) plaintiff was deprived of possession either by the unlawful entry or by separate conduct; and (4) plaintiff is seeking to ræover possession. (Cal. Prac. Guide Landlord-Tenant Ch. 7-A, S 7:18, et seq.) The declarations ...

Excerpt: ...ures LLC v. Kings Mountain Road LLC et al. (23-CIV-02211), and Zambezi Creek Road LLC v. Kings Mountain Road LLC et al. (23-ClV02214). All three cases relate to flooding during atmospheric river storms in Northern California, which each of the respective Plaintiffs allege was caused by the actions of Defendants. Zambezi Creek Road LLC v. Kings Mountain Road LLC et al. (23-ClV-02214) Defendant moves to strike certain portions of Plaintiffs' operat...

Excerpt: ...erty Ventures LLC v. Kings Mountain Road LLC et al. (23-CIV- 02211), and Zambezi Creek Road LLCv. Kings Mountain Road LLC et al. (23-ClV02214). All three cases relate to flooding during atmospheric river storms in Northern California, which each of the respective Plaintiffs allege was caused by the actions of Defendants. Woodside Property Ventures LLC v. Kings Mountain Road LLC et al. (23-ClV-02211) Defendant moves to strike certain portions of P...

Excerpt: ...t al. (23-ClV-02210), Woodside Property Ventures LLC v. Kings Mountain Road LLC et al. (23-ClV-02211), and Zambezi Creek Road LLC v. Kings Mountain Road LLC et al. (23- CIV02214). All three cases relate to flooding during atmospheric river storms in Northern California, which each of the respective Plaintiffs allege was caused by the actions of Defendants. Emygd-us Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Kings Mountain Road LLC, et al. (23-ClV-02210) Defendant ...

Excerpt: ...a preference to a petitioning party over age 70 when it finds that (1) the party has a substantial interest in the action as a whole and (2) the health of the party is such that a preference is necessary to prevent prejudicing the party's interest in the litigation. A motion for preference need only be supported by an affidavit "signed by the attorney for the party seeking preference based upon information and belief as to the medical diagnosis a...

Excerpt: ...s GRANTED in part and DENIED in part as set forth below. Defendant West Bay Sanitary District's Request for Judicial Notice is GRANTED as to all items. Defendant West Bay Sanitary District's Objections to the Declaration of Richard Li are OVERRULED as to all items. Defendant West Bay Sanitary District ("WBSD") moves here for summary adjudication of the second through fifth causes of action as set forth in the Second Amended Complaint (the "SAC")....

Excerpt: ...NISTRATIVE SERVICES LLC for residents at BURLINGAME HEALTH CARE CENTER during the time period that Ms. CYNTHIA JENNINGS was a resident at BURLINGAME HEALTH CARE CENTER. No. 22: All "review tool" manuals from which ROCKPORT ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES LLC will any e-mail "load files" in response to the discovery requests in this First Set of Requests for Production. As part of the meet and confer process, Plaintiffs stated that they were amenable to t...

Excerpt: ...d Telios. Plaintiff's Complaint does not provide details on the relationship between her and Telios, but merely lumps Kartos and Telios together at the beginning of the Complaint as Defendants or collectively, "the Company." Plaintiff's Complaint does not allege that she entered into a contract of any kind with Telios, and the attached offer letter is only on behalf of Kartos and signed by Kartos offcers. In regard to the demurrer of Kartos, alth...