Excerpt: ...Dornon Kuehn, The Carpet Butler, John Lee, James Young, and William C. Dresser. Hartman's verified complaint alleges the following causes of action: 1. Conspiracy to Harm Plaintiff and His Real and Personal Property and Injunctive Relief — Against All Defendants 2. Unfair Business Practices — Against Koshy P. George and KPGCPA Financial Services Inc. 3. Abate Public Nuisance and Private Nuisance and Criminal Nuisance (Penal Code 370 — illeg...

Excerpt: ...d Jocelyn Guerrero (collectively, "Plaintiffs") against defendants Equity Residential Management, LLC and Transunion Rental Screening Solutions, Inc. (collectively, "Defendants"). The original and still-operative complaint filed on March 22, 2023 alleges three causes of action: (1) Violations of the ICRAA (Civ. Code, S 1786); (2) Invasion of Privacy; and (3) Declaratory Relief. According to the complaint, Plaintiffs were all prospective tenants o...

Excerpt: ...McManis with other counsel. The original and still-operative complaint, filed on May 4, 2023, states three causes of action: (1) Conversion; (2) Fraud; and (3) Breach of Fiduciary Duty. Cooper filed an answer to the complaint on June 20, 2023. Now before the court is Cooper's motion to strike the complaint, filed on August 16, 2023, nearly two months after his answer. Plaintiff opposes the motion. 4 II. MOTION TO STRIKE THE COMPLAINT A. General L...

Excerpt: ...th describes his proposed amendments as follows: (1) addition of Doe Defendant 1 Gilberto Garcia, who is being added since defendant ("Maria Garcia") signed an Interspousal Grant Deed transferring her entire interest in her property to this individual ("Gilberto Garcia"), (2) An addition of a cause of action, expanding to clarify existing cause of actions, based on facts that have already been pleaded (3) Additions to Plaintiffs prayer based on t...

Excerpt: ...ative first amended complaint ("FAC") on May 5, 2023. The FAC states causes of achon for: (1) Sexual Assault of a Minor (alleged against Doe 2 only, who is referred to as the "Perpetrator"); and (2) Negligence of District and Employees (alleged against Doe 1 only). Plaintiffs allege that the sexual abuse and assaults took place during the 1973-1974 school year and that some of the alleged sexual abuse of Rodvold and all of the alleged abuse of Me...

Excerpt: ...e business clients and earnings; and (3) breach of contract. On January 17, 2023 this court (Judge Kirwan) overruled Defendants' demurrer to the first cause of action, sustained without leave to amend the second cause of action, and sustained with leave to amend the third cause of action for breach of contract. Hansen filed a first amended complaint ("FAC") on January 17, 2023, alleging a single claim for breach of contract. On June 6, 2023, the ...

Excerpt: ...20, 2023 and then continued to September 19, 2023, in light of the then-pending motion by Cisco to declare Ali a vexatious litigant. On September 19, 2023, the court (Judge Kulkarni) continued the motion again, following the court's ruling granting the vexatious litigant motion and ordering the posting of a $250,000 bond, "and because there is no proof that Plaintiff has paid the necessary security." Third, at the case management conference on Se...

Excerpt: ...me from a home located at 1165 E. Florinda Street, Hanford, California, that he co-owned with Travestean. Travestean has since passed away, and Darrell now seeks leave to amend his complaint to remove her as a defendant, add Chantal as a defendant in her capacity as trustee of the Travestean Wynn Williams Revocable Living Trust, add Michael Patterson (Chantal's husband) as a defendant, and add four more causes of action for elder abuse, fraud, un...

Excerpt: ...idential Management, LLC and Transunion Rental Screening Solutions, Inc. (collectively, "Defendants"). The original and still- operative complaint filed on March 30, 2023 states three causes of action: (1) Violation of the ICRAA (Civ. Code, S 1786); (2) Invasion of Privacy; and (3) Declaratory Relief. According to the complaint, Plaintiffs were all prospective tenants of the Lex Apartments, an apartment complex managed and operated by Equity Resi...

Excerpt: ...nd his law firm, the Hann Law Firm (collectively, "Hann"). The original complaint did not allege when Hann's representation ended. The operative first amended complaint ("FAC"), filed on August 3, 2022 after Minkowski obtained legal representation, similarly states claims for: (1) Breach of Contract (now styled an Attorney-Client Fee Agreement); (2) Legal Malpractice; and (3) Breach of Fiduciary Duty against both defendants. The FAC alleges (at 5...

Excerpt: ...mber 28, 2023, alleging a single cause of achon for partition. According to the complaint, Plaintiffs reside in the Philippines and are collectively a tenant-in-common owner of a 50% interest in the Property. (Complaint, '1 3.) The Reyes Defendants are a tenant-in-common owner of the remaining 50% interest. (ld. at 4.) Plaintiffs and the Reyes Defendants acquired their interest in the Property as joint tenants through a Grant Deed recorded with S...

Excerpt: ...rative complaint on May 26, 2023. The complaint alleges that Pamonag was a dependent adult and inpatient at Grace, a 24- hour skilled nursing facility. (Complaint, 3, 15.) On an unspecified date, and at an unspecified facility, someone on the staff at Grace placed a cap on Pamonag's tracheostomy tube, causing her to stop breathing, suffer brain damage, and ultimately pass away on March 5, 2022. (ld. at "11, 21.) Plaintiffs allege that as a result...

Excerpt: ...use states that the courts of Indiana shall have "exclusive jurisdiction for deciding legal disputes relating to this limited warranty." Having reviewed the parties' submissions, the court concludes that the forum selection clause here is valid and that a stay is appropriate under section 410.30, subdivision (a), which provides that when a court "finds that in the interest of substantial justice an action should be heard in a forum outside this s...

Excerpt: ...t motion. In the alternative, Yau requests reconsideration of the court's order granting the motion to quash under Code of Civil Procedure section 1008. The court GRANTS the motion under section 473(b) and sets a new hearing on Defendants' motion to quash for February 29, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 10. Defendants argue that relief is unavailable under section 473 and that Yau's current motion is properly one for reconsideration only, but the...

Excerpt: ... Craig urban, co- founded and co-owned: the complaint sets forth two causes of action for professional negligence against Cheng. Cheng now argues—with no explanation as to why this argument is being raised here for the first time, nearly two and a half years after this court (Judge Kirwan) overruled her demurrer to the complaint— that Scott Urban should have named two other parties as defendants in his complaint: Craig Urban and CH Pension Se...

Excerpt: ...C"), filed on June 7, 2021, states four causes of acton: (1) Assault and Battery (against Don only); (2) Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress (against Don only); (3) Negligence and Negligence Per Se (against Don only); and (4) Negligent Supervision (against Glenna and Napoleon Francisco (Don's parents) and Kelly Ng (Don's girlfriend)). The FAC alleges that Don sexually assaulted Jane Doe 1 "[flor approximately four years" starting when sh...

Excerpt: ...s where Mummah resided at the outset of the action. On April 22, 2022, Li filed the operative first amended complaint for declaratory relief ("FAC"). On September 2, 2022, Mummah filed an answer to the FAC and a cross- complaint alleging a violation of the federal and California Fair Debt Collection Practices Acts. On March 6, 2023, Li filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings ("JOP motion") versus the answer on two grounds: 1) that the answer...

Excerpt: ... Nguyen (Nguyen's wife) and Nguyen Thi Ngoc Qui (Nguyen's daughter). In addition, these cases include cross- complaints involving several of the same parties, as well as Little Saigon Plaza Sacramento LLC ("Little Saigon"), a former "partnership" between Luong and Nguyen that Luong apparently now controls. In each of these cases, Nguyen previously filed a "Motion to Set Aside Default, Default Judgment, Summary Adjudications, Charging Orders, and ...

Excerpt: ...aches a January 2019 asset purchase agreement that governs the sale of "A Special Place Schools" by Allen to Devinder and Anoma Singh for $285,000.00 (the "Agreement"). (See Complaint, 8-10, Exhibit 1.) According to the complaint, the Agreement provided that Amazing Stars would tender $185,000.00 in cash to Allen and pay the remaining $100,000.00 through monthly installments over a 36-month period at a seven percent annual interest rate (the "Car...

Excerpt: ...TMS. The court finds that MCI has moved promptly to bring this proposed amendment and that granting it will not prejudice any other party. The court grants the motion, except to the extent that purports to add Taylor Morrison of California, LLC ("TMC") as a cross-defendant. This motion was alluded to in the briefing on TMC and TMS's motion for determination of good-faith settlement, which was heard by the court on November 28, 2023. It was the co...

Excerpt: ...ing party. Thuerk now seeks attorney's fees in the amount of $75,037, plus $11,059.15 in costs. The court GRANTS in part and DENIES in part the motion. There is no dispute that Thuerk is entitled to attorney's fees; the only dispute between the parties is over the amount of those fees. The court finds that Thuerk's counsel's billing rates are reasonable for this type of case ($300-$625 per hour). Indeed, the court has found similar rates to be re...

Excerpt: ... demurrer, filed on December 8, 2023, was untimely, and that it was filed after a default should have been entered by the clerk's office on November 30, 2023. The court disagrees with Zheng's argument that he had until December 12, 2023 to demur or otherwise respond to the complaint. That is based on the erroneous premise that the court's November 16, 2023 order on his (and Ni's) second motion to quash, as well as the Appellate Division's Novembe...

Excerpt: ...led on May 18, 2023, states two causes of action: (1) Violation of the Song-Beverly Act—Breach of Express Warranty, and (2) Fraudulent Inducement—concealment. The complaint alleges that, as part of the purchase of the subject vehicle, Ramadoss entered into an express written contract with Honda, a warranty agreement that is attached to the complaint as Exhibit 1. (Complaint at 9.) The complaint alleges that Honda was aware of the sensing defe...

Excerpt: ...ontrol of his assets and companies." (July 20, 2022 Order at p. 1:19-22.) At the most recent hearing, on June 20, 2023, the court heard three motions from the parties. Now before the court are five more motions: (1) Defendants' motion to file under seal documents related to Adult Protective Services ("APS") records; (2) the State Bar of California's motion for a protective order (and request for sanctions); (3) Defendants' motion to compel Lee to...

Excerpt: ...ther. Currently before the court is a motion for "summary interlocutory judgment," filed by Diana on November 1, 2023. II. ACTIONS FOR PARTITION "A co-owner of real or personal property may bring an action for partition." (Code Civ. Proc., S 872.210.) As a general matter, "partition" is "the procedure for segregating and terminating common interests in the same parcel of property." (14859 Moorpark Homeowner's Assn. v. VRT Corp. (1998) 63 Cal.App....