Excerpt: ...3 U.S. Currency v. Randall Keith Laskowsky and Transpart Warehouse, Inc., Case No. 20 MSE 0002, after hearing on June 15, 2020, pursuant to Penal Code SS 1539 and 1540. The June 2020 Order directed the return of monies seized pursuant to Shasta County Search warrant #2020-149, from a Chase Account 2991, and a Tri-Counties Account 4399. The Court issued a second Order, on October 1, 2021 in the consolidated asset forfeiture acton Case Nos. 195245/...

Excerpt: ... each request for a continuance must be considered on its own merits. The court may grant a continuance only on an affirmative showing of good cause requiring the continuance." CRC 3.1332(c). "A party's excused inability to obtain essential testimony, documents, or other material evidence despite diligent efforts" is a circumstance that may constitute good cause. CRC 3.1332(c)(6). There are several factors that the Court must consider including: ...

Excerpt: ... 3.769. Defendant has filed a Statement of Non-oppositon tothe Motion. The proposed class is defined as "all current and former non-exempt employees employed by California Mentor Family Home Agency, LLC in California at any time from May 5, 2017 through December 20, 2022, except during the time period(s) in which they held the positions of Mentor Recruiter, Mentor Recruiter, CA, or Mentor Recruiter, CA or Mentor Recruitment Specialist." The PAGA ...

Excerpt: ...1194), failure to prov-de legally compliance rest and meal breaks (Labor Code SS 225.6, 226.7 & 512), failure to issue accurately itemized wage statements (Labor Code SS 226(a) and 225.3), failure to pay wages (Labor Code S 2802) and failure to reimburse all necessary business expenses (Labor Code S 2802). The Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 ("PAGA") is codified in Lab. Code SS 2698, et seq. In bringing a PAGA action, an aggrieved employee ...

Excerpt: ...Court finds that regardless of the meet and confer requirements, Defendant provided evidence of sufficient meet and confer efforts. Merits. The motion is made pursuant to CCP S 2023.010, et seq and is characterized as Plaintiff's misuse of the discovery process. Misuses of the discovery process include, but are not limited to, the following: (b) using a discovery method in a manner that does not comply with its specified pruedures. (c) Employing ...

Excerpt: ...hich includes ambiguous or unintelligible causes of action. CCP S 430.10(f). A demurrer can be used to challenge defects that appear on the face of the complaint or from matters that may be subject to judicial notice. Blank v. Kirwan (1985) 39 Cal. 3d 311, 318. The court "treat(s) the demurrer as admitting all material facts properly pleaded, but not contentions, deductions or conclusions of fact or law." Hood v. Hacienda La Puente Unified School...

Excerpt: ...o the discovery requests conditional upon the execution of a protective order. Thus the Court addresses herein only those matters on which the parties could not agree. Tentatve Ruling on Moton to Compel Further Responses to Special Interrogatories and Requests for Documents: Plaintiffs mcwe for an order compelling further responses to Special Interrogatories, Set One Nos. 2, 3, 20-23, 30 and 34. Merits of Motion: A party propounding interrogatori...

Excerpt: ...ings if the complaint states sufficient facts to constitute a cause of action and the answer does not state facts sufficient to constitute a defense to the complaint. The grounds for the motion shall appear on the face of the challenged pleading or from any other matter of which the court may take judicial notice. CCP S 438(d). The Court may take judicial notice of responses to discovery records pursuant to Evidence Code SS 452(d) and 453. Arce v...

Excerpt: ...by a declaration stating either that the parties met and conferred or that they were unable to meet and confer. CCP S 430.41(a)(3). Defendant General Motors LLC's Declaration Regarding Meet and Confer Efforts filed on June 26, 2023 satisfies the meet and confer requirement. Standards of Demurrer: A generally demurrer should be sustained if the complaint fails to "state facts sufficient to constitute a valid cause of action." CCP S 430.10(e). A de...

Excerpt: ..., setting a briefing schedule and today's hearing date. Plaintiff seeks a preliminary injunction preventing Defendant from dissipating funds and assets. Plaintiff argues that injunctive relief is needed to maintain the status quo while this matter proceeds to trial. Defendant opposes the preliminary injunction, arguing that it would impede his ability to make a living, and would violate his due process rights. Merits of Mohon. Although an OSC dir...

Excerpt: ...016.040; which went unanswered until after the instant Motion was served. The Court notes Plaintiff has failed to file a Separate Statement as required by CRC Rule 3.1345. The Court will nonetheless reach the merits of this motion. However, Plaintiff is directed to comply with the California Rules of Court in the future. Merits. This is an action brought under the Song-Beverly Act. Civil Code S 1790 et seq. To succeed on a claim, a plaintiff the ...

Excerpt: ...94), failure to prov-de legally compliance rest and meal breaks (Labor Code SS 225.6, 226.7 & 512), failure to issue accurately itemized wage statements (Labor Code SS 226(a) and 225.3), failure to pay wages (Labor Code S 2802) and failure to reimburse all necessary business expenses (Labor Code S 2802). The Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 ("PAGA") is codified in Lab. Code SS 2698, et seq. In bringing a PAGA action, an aggrieved employee ac...

Excerpt: ...March 3, 2022 and codified in 9 U.S.C. SS 401-402. The Act reads that "no predispute arbitration agreement or predispute joint-action waiver shall be valid or enforceable with respect to a case which is filed under Federal, Tribal, or State law and relates to the sexual assault dispute or the sexual harassment dispute." 9 U.S.C. S 402(a). Because Plaintiff is a "person alleging conduct constituting a sexual harassment dispute or sexual assault di...

Excerpt: ...oinder to the motion on June 1, 2023. Plaintiff opposed the motion, which was originally set for hearing on April 3, 2023. The hearing was continued to allow time for further briefing should ongoing discovery warrant further briefing. The Court notes that no further briefing has been filed by any party. Defendants argue that the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") applies. The declarations of A.C. Saechao and Roxanne Bullock do not provide any eviden...

Excerpt: ...mand for inspection is directed fails to serve a timely response, the party making the 4 demand may move for an order compelling a response. CCP S 2031.300 (b). The party to whom the demand was directed waives any objection to the demand by not responding. CCP S 2031.300(a). Unlike a motion to compel further responses, a moton to compel responses when no responses have been provided does not require the propounding party to demonstrate good cause...

Excerpt: ...S 2033.300(a). The Court may permit the withdrawal upon a showing that the admission was the result of a mistake, inadvertence or excusable neglect and that the party who obtained the admission will not be substantially prejudiced by the withdrawal. CCP S 2033.300(b). In the present situation, Plaintiff, in response to a Request for Admission propounded by Defendant Sunset Oaks Townhomes Homeowners Association (hereinafter "Sunset"), admitted tha...

Excerpt: ...r order appealed from or upon the matters embraced therein or affected thereby, including enforcement of the judgment or order, but the trial court may proceed upon any other matter embraced in the action and not affected by the judgment or order. CCP S 916(a). 9 As a preliminary matter, the Court notes that Defendant has filed Appellant's Opening Brief. Decl. Michael L Ricks, 4. As there has been no challenge to whether the ap#al has been #rfect...

Excerpt: ...e moving party to show that the neglect was excusable: i.e., that the default could not have been avoided through the exercise of ordinary care. Jackson v. Bank of America (1983) 141 Cal.App.3d 55, 58. "[T]he acts which brought about the default must have been the acts of a reasonably prudent person under the same circumstances." ld. The moving party has the burden of proof to establish one of these conditions by a preponderance of the evidence. ...

Excerpt: ...ction 214 of the Family Code or any other provision of law, the sittings of every court shall be public." CCP S 124. Unless confidentiality is required by law, court records are presumed to be open to the public. California Rules of Court (CRC), Rule 2.550(c). "The public has a First Amendment right of access to civil litigation documents filed in court and used at trial or submitted as a basis for adjudication. [Citation.] Substantive courtroom ...

Excerpt: ...t Plaintiff Jennifer Bryant. Defendants have filed the exact same three motions separately against Plaintiff A. Adam Crolius. Factual Background: Defendants propounded: Special Interrogatories, Set Two and Request for Production, Set Three on Plaintiffs on February 10, 2023. Response were originally due on March 14, 2023 but extensions were provided until April 3, 2023. Responses were not provided prior to the April 3, 2023 deadline. Responses to...

Excerpt: ... briefs. CCP S 473 prov-des that the court may "in furtherance of justice...allow, upon any terms as may be just, 7 an amendment to any pleading or proceeding in other particulars." CCP S 473(a)(1). The court's discretion is usually exercised liberally to permit amendment of the pleadings "at any stage of the proceedings, up to and including trial," absent prejudice to the adverse party. Atkinson v. Elk Corp. (2003) 109 Cal.App.4th 739, 751, 135 ...

Excerpt: ...endant Karen Freitas. Defendant filed her Answer on December 20, 2022. On February 17, 2023, Plaintiff filed a motion to deem matters admitted. Defendant did not oppose the motion to deem matters admitted, and the Court granted the moton on April 3, 2023. Meet and Confer: "The moving party shall file and serve with the motion for judgment on the pleadings a declaration stating" the attempts made to meet and confer. CCP S The Declaration of Brian ...

Excerpt: ...10(e) & (f). Plaintiffs-in- Intervention have submitted an objection to Defendants' reply. The objection is based on apparent new arguments or issues raised in the reply that were not raised in the moving papers. Out of an abundance of caution and to prevent prejudice to Plaintiffs-in-Intervention's due process rights, the Court continues this matter to Monday, June 26, 2023, at 8:30 a.m. in Department 3. Plaintiffs-in-Interventon may submit a br...

Excerpt: ...America Structured Securites Acquisition Trust 2019-HBI ("Wilmington"). On November 22, 2022, Plaintiff dismissed the Second and Third causes of action. On January 17, 2023 this court sustained Defendants' Demurrer, as to all remaining causes of action, and with leave to amend on causes of action 8-10. Plaintiff filed his Second Amended Complaint ("SAC") on March 30, 2023. The SAC alleges three causes of action against FAR and Wilmington: 3) viol...

Excerpt: ...Interrogatories, Set One and Special Interrogatories, Set No. One on November 10, 2021. Defendant provided extensions to respond making the discovery responses due on or before January 23, 2023. Plaintiff provided unverified responses on February 22, 203. A party propounding interrogatories may move for further responses if the responses are evasive/-ncomplete or contain unmeritorious objections. CCP S 2030.300(a)(1) & (3). A failure to provide t...