Excerpt: ...ce for Tuesday, August 3, 2021, at 8:30 a.m. in Department 23. Plaintiff seeks to add a new cause of action and to add a new party defendant. Defendants Yassen Mohamed, Nagi M. Saeed, and Edison Mini Mart oppose the motion asserting Plaintiff has prejudicially delayed by seeking relief less than a month before the scheduled trial date. Plaintiff alleges information learned during discovery gave rise to the new cause of action and new defendant. P...

Excerpt: ...g time penalties, without leave to amend; To Sustain Defendant's demurrer to Plaintiff's Eighth Cause of Action as to retaliation claims, with leave to amend; To Overrule Defendant's demurrer in all other respects. (2) To deny Defendant's Motion to Strike First Amended Complaint. Defendant's motions were initially filed on January 6, 2020 and have been continued due to court emergency orders and reassignment of this action to this date. Plaintiff...

Excerpt: ...gs' objection to Questions 2 and 3 are sustained. OPERATIVE FACTS This is a personal injury action arising out of a motor vehicle accident. Plaintiff raises the following allegations in ¶MV-2 of his complaint: (a) The defendants who operated a motor vehicle are Arthur Jennings; (b) The defendants who employed the persons who operated a motor in the course of their employment are: City of Porterville, Tree Sierra Management; (c) the defendants wh...

Excerpt: ...Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress that arise out of the plaintiffs' claim that the defendants violated the civil rights of plaintiffs' decedent Humberto Sanchez Ramos under 42 U.S.C. §1983. Defendants demurrer to the plaintiffs' first amended complaint on the bases that (1) plaintiffs have failed to allege sufficient facts to constitute any causes of action, and (2) that the defendant deputies are exempt from liability based on qualifie...

Excerpt: ...hearing on all three discovery motions to March 23, 2021 at 8: 30 a.m. in Department 23. As to all three discovery motions: Plaintiff's action seeks damages for injuries suffered from a defective product. Defendant propounded written discovery in October 2020. Plaintiff, through his counsel, provided responses to the discovery containing only unverified objections. Plaintiff's counsel advised Defense counsel that there was a communication problem...

Excerpt: ...without prejudice. This is a contract action that involved the arrest of two vessels for the alleged non-payment of bunker supplies and the consequent failure to release these vessels and their contents to the plaintiffs. Plaintiff are the guarantor and shipping company for these vessels. The defendants are the owners of the vessels. Defendant AAA is a company engaged in ship management and ship owning only with its principal place of business in...

Excerpt: ...n of Documents, Set One. Plaintiff shall provide verified written responses, without objection, to the discovery requests within ten (10) days of this order; and (2) To Grant Defendant's Motion to Compel Plaintiff's Responses to Form Interrogatories, Set One. Plaintiff shall provide verified written responses, without objection, to the discovery requests within ten (10) days of this order. As to both motions, Plaintiff shall pay to Defendant the ...

Excerpt: ...rrer by Defendants Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company of Sacramento, LLC and National Car Rental to Plaintiffs' First Amended Complaint as to all causes of action; and (2) To Grant the Motion by Defendants Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company of Sacramento, LLC and National Car Rental to Strike Punitive Damages Allegations, without leave to amend and to deny the motion as to class allegations. Defendants shall file their answers to the First Amended Complain...

Excerpt: ...application for a fee waiver because her counsel Barry Fischer agreed to pay the necessary filing fees. Because of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in late March, 2020, the City of Beverly Hills ordered all non-essential business (including the Law Office of Barry Fischer) closed. Mr. Fischer was replaced as plaintiff's attorney of record by attorney Behrouz Shafie, on or about April 14, 2020. Attorney Shafie filed the formal Substitution of...

Excerpt: ...netary Sanctions in the Sum of $1,355.00 against Plaintiff and Her Counsel of Record Raymond Ghermezian APLC (3) Defendant Rodolfo Elizalde Jr.'s Motion for an Order Deeming the Truth of Admissions; Request for Monetary Sanctions in the Sum of $1,540.00 against Plaintiff and Her Counsel of Record Raymond Ghermezian APLC (4) Defendant Rodolfo Elizalde Jr.'s Motion to Compel Plaintiff's Verified Responses to Demand for Production Set One and Produc...

Excerpt: ...rected to appear by CourtCall. Defendant's motion was filed on March 23, 2020 and noticed for hearing on May 12, 2020. Proof of service in the file indicates notice of the motion was adequate. As of May 15, 2020, no response to the motion has been processed. Plaintiff asserts he suffered injuries in a vehicle accident involving a vehicle owned by Defendant H and B Truck Lines, Canal Insurance Company's insured. The accident is alleged to have occ...