Excerpt: ...UCLA's Institute for Technology Advancement (“ITA”) and suggested that Plaintiff present to ITA. (See 4AC, ¶¶ 49‐51.) On October 7, 2009, Plaintiff provided Konda Tech's business presentation to Markovic and ITA in confidence. (See 4AC, ¶ 51.) Markovic began the presentation by presenting the confidential Konda Tech Business Presentation to defendant Leslie Lackman (“Lackman”), deputy director for ITA. (Id.) Despite the business pres...

Excerpt: ...n Ave., Apt. 301 (hereinafter, “subject premises”). (See complaint, ¶¶ 2, 6‐7.) The lease was a 12‐month lease, renewable as a month‐to‐ month lease thereafter, subject to the annual recertification of Plaintiff's BMR eligibility by defendant Alvin's Corner at Penny Lane, LLC (“Alvin's”) and approval from City. (See complaint, ¶ 8.) Alvin's certified Plaintiff's BMR eligibility at move‐in in February 2016 and subsequently the...

Excerpt: ...pril 6, 2021, the court requested supplemental briefing, and the motion was continued to May 27, 2021. On April 8, 2021, the parties stipulated to continue hearing to September 2, 2021. On August 11, 2021, Park Capital and Adam filed a supplemental brief in support; on August 20, 2021, plaintiff filed supplemental opposition; and on August 26, 2021, Park Capital and Adam filed reply. Background On August 30, 2019, plaintiff filed complaint agains...

Excerpt: ...UCLA's Institute for Technology Advancement (“ITA”) and suggested that Plaintiff present to ITA. (See 4AC, ¶¶ 49‐51.) On October 7, 2009, Plaintiff provided Konda Tech's business presentation to Markovic and ITA in confidence. (See 4AC, ¶ 51.) Markovic began the presentation by presenting the confidential Konda Tech Business Presentation to defendant Leslie Lackman (“Lackman”), deputy director for ITA. (Id.) Despite the business pres...

Excerpt: ...TAC at ¶ 12.) Tigadi left the company in 2010 and his shares were distributed equally between Sahai and Bilugu. (Ibid.) In December 2012, Sahai and Bilugu created a shell entity, eGestalt Technologies, a Delaware corporation (“eGestalt‐ Del”). (TAC at ¶ 13.) In March 2015, the eGestalt‐Del was renamed Aegify, Inc. (“Aegify”). (TAC at ¶ 15.) On February 1, 2010, Aegify made an offer of employment to plaintiff Sahai, which was accept...

Excerpt: ...o timely and fully pay Group One $3.9 million plus Change Orders in exchange for Group One's performance of the contract. (Id.) The contract was signed by cross‐defendant Jen Hao Richard Chen (“Chen”) as owner of La Encina. (See FAXC, ¶ 12.) Prior to entering the contract, Foust questioned Chen about La Encina's ability to pay for Group One's services under the contract, and Chen assured Foust that: La Encina had sufficient capital to cove...

Excerpt: ...Snow, Alan Summers, John Trowbridge, Jane Green and Old Republic Title. Defendant K.C. Knapp (“Knapp”) was served with summons and FAC on or about November 2020, and following denial of Knapp's motion to quash service on May 11, 2021, Knapp filed the instant motion to compel arbitration and for stay of action. On August 11, 2021, plaintiffs filed opposition and on August 17, 2021, Knapp filed reply. On August 2, 2021, defendants Alan Summers ...

Excerpt: ...ctual listing agreement with plaintiffs Silicon Valley Real Estate Group, Inc. (“Keller Williams”) and Keke “Coco” Tan (“Tan”) (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) whereby Plaintiffs agreed to list and market the property for sale and the Hans agreed to give Plaintiffs the exclusive and irrevocable right starting on February 1, 2018 until August 31, 2018 to sell the property in the capacity of the Hans' real estate agent and broker and to...

Excerpt: ... in September 2019 as a Sr. Software Engineer, Machine Learning. (FAC at ¶ 11.) After several months, Plaintiff began experiencing medical issues that caused Plaintiff to become temporarily disabled. (Id. at ¶ 13.) Specifically, Plaintiff began to suffer from mental instability resulting from Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Type. (Ibid.) As a result, Plaintiff took a medical leave of absence from work from March 10, 2020 through April 6, 2020...

Excerpt: ...igation and fraud case for Mohebbi. Thereafter, Mohebbi filed an action against ALG for legal malpractice, fraud, overbilling and other claims arising out of the prosecution of the underlying business litigation and fraud case that gave rise to ALG's claim. The cases have now been consolidated under the older case number, which was the initial action filed by plaintiff ALG. Factual and Procedural Background On May 3, 2013, defendant Mohebbi signe...

Excerpt: ... represented) against defendant Silicon Valley Academy Project [sued herein as Silicon Valley Academy and Silicon Valley Academy Project (SVA Project)] (“SVAP”).1 According to the operative first amended complaint (“FAC”), on May 11, 2018, a student hit plaintiff Azzam, a minor, on the head with a shovel on the premises of defendant SVAP during school hours. (See FAC at GN‐1.) The alleged student had a history of violent behavior and pl...

Excerpt: ...UCLA's Institute for Technology Advancement (“ITA”) and suggested that Plaintiff present to ITA. (See 4AC, ¶¶ 49‐51.) On October 7, 2009, Plaintiff provided Konda Tech's business presentation to Markovic and ITA in confidence. (See 4AC, ¶ 51.) On October 12, 2009, just prior to presenting to ITA, Markovic, for the first time, indicated that Plaintiff should not expect ITA to fund Konda Tech because ITA does not fund technologies built ou...

Excerpt: ... ruptured and he was throwing up black vomit. (See SAC, ¶ 37.) On July 2, 2019, Plaintiff was returned to GSH, and he required further operations, as well as placement on a colostomy bag and another bag to drain blood. (See SAC, ¶¶ 38, 45.) Plaintiff had a bowel impaction with bowel perforation and had another surgery but went into septic shock. (See SAC, ¶ 46.) On July 5, 2019, a deep tissue injury was found on Plaintiff, which was inaccurat...

Excerpt: ...connection with a lawsuit that defendant brought on behalf of plaintiff in Phunware, Inc. v. Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco County Superior Court case no. CGC‐17‐561546. (“Uber lawsuit”). On May 18, 2021, defendant filed the instant motion to compel arbitration and stay of this action. On August 4, 2021, plaintiff filed opposition and on August 10, 2021, defendant filed reply. Summary of contentions Defendant asserts that the pres...

Excerpt: ...igation and fraud case for Mohebbi. Thereafter, Mohebbi filed an action against ALG for legal malpractice, fraud, overbilling and other claims arising out of the prosecution of the underlying business litigation and fraud case that gave rise to ALG's claim. The cases have now been consolidated under the older case number, which was the initial action filed by plaintiff ALG. Factual and Procedural Background On May 3, 2013, defendant Mohebbi signe...

Excerpt: ...laintiffs in the action are Brandon, Blaine and Brooke Pierce. The instant lawsuit was preceded by a lawsuit for the same airplane crash filed on April 5, 2018 by Silvia Farelas et al. (“Farelas action”). The action named as defendants the Estates of the pilot, Nouri Hijazi, and spouse, Danuta Hijazi, the Hijazi Living Trust (“Hijazi Trust”), and other parties not related to the Hijazi defendants. Pierce was the trustee of the Hijazi Trus...

Excerpt: ... represented) against defendant Silicon Valley Academy Project [sued herein as Silicon Valley Academy and Silicon Valley Academy Project (SVA Project)] (“SVAP”).1 According to the operative first amended complaint (“FAC”), on May 11, 2018, a student hit plaintiff Azzam, a minor, on the head with a shovel on the premises of defendant SVAP during school hours. (See FAC at GN‐1.) The alleged student had a history of violent behavior and pl...

Excerpt: ...s determined not complex pursuant to order filed February 22,, 2021. On May 4, 2021, defendants filed the instant petition to compel arbitration and dismiss or stay proceedings. On June 9, 2021, plaintiff filed opposition and on July 27, 2021, defendants filed reply. Summary of contentions Defendants assert that plaintiff must be compelled to arbitration and that this court proceeding be dismissed or stayed pursuant to an arbitration agreement en...

Excerpt: ...nded complaint (“FAC”), the District is the largest multipurpose water supply, watershed stewardship, and flood management special district in California. (FAC at ¶ 10.) The District owns and operates the Rinconada Water Treatment Plant (“RWTP”) which takes in raw water from various sources and processes it to produce potable water (i.e., drinking water). (Id. at ¶ 11.) Like every drinking water plant, the RWTP employs a Residuals Manag...

Excerpt: ...UCLA's Institute for Technology Advancement (“ITA”) and suggested that Plaintiff present to ITA. (See 4AC, ¶¶ 49‐51.) On October 7, 2009, Plaintiff provided Konda Tech's business presentation to Markovic and ITA in confidence. (See 4AC, ¶ 51.) On October 12, 2009, just prior to presenting to ITA, Markovic, for the first time, indicated that Plaintiff should not expect ITA to fund Konda Tech because ITA does not fund technologies built ou...

Excerpt: ...s”) and ABC Legal Services, Inc. (“ABC”) to serve legal process in the prior action upon Plaintiff, by delivering a copy of the summons and complaint to Plaintiff. (See complaint, ¶ 15.) On June 3, 2011, Solis and ABC composed a document titled Proof of Service of Summons in which they represented that they had served Plaintiff with a copy of the summons complaint and related documents and thereafter, Defendants filed the proof of service....

Excerpt: ...d of Supervisors. (First Amended Complaint [“FAC”] at ¶ 10.) Plaintiff's immediate supervisor was Megan Doyle (“Doyle”). (Id. at ¶ 11.) In early 2018, Plaintiff informed Doyle that she was considering retiring after many years of service. (FAC at ¶ 13.) Doyle urged Plaintiff to delay her retirement until after one of the Board of Supervisors left office. (Ibid.) Plaintiff, albeit reluctantly, agreed to delay her retirement. (Ibid.) The...

Excerpt: ...vent prejudicing her interest in the litigation. On July 7, 2021, defendants Stephen Lam and Eva Sung (“defendants”) filed opposition and on July 14, 2021, plaintiffs filed reply. Summary of contentions Plaintiffs assert that Ms. Sultan is age 74, and suffers from multiple debilitating illnesses that have deteriorated her physical health and brain function such that preference in trial setting is necessary. Plaintiffs assert that Ms. Sultan r...

Excerpt: ...is Stronghold's demurrer to the City's second amended crosscomplaint (“SAXC”). According to the allegations in the SAXC, the City awarded the contract for constructing the Project to SEI on November 17, 2015 following a competitive bidding process. (SAXC, ¶¶ 7– 8, 12.) As set forth in SEI's bid, it agreed to perform the work for a base price of $46,997,000. (SAXC, ¶ 8.) With its bid, as required by Public Contract Code § 4104 (a)(1), SE...

Excerpt: ...intiff Calisi retained defendant Durham Associates CPAs, Inc. (“Dunham CPA”) to perform bookkeeping and tax services for both plaintiff individually, and Odeum. (Complaint at ¶ 10.) Defendants Dunham CPA and Rick D. Dunham (“Dunham”) (collectively, “Defendants”) agreed to perform bookkeeping and accounting services for the fiscal years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and first quarter of 2020; and tax services for the fiscal years of 2016, 2...