Excerpt: ...e information about remote appearances. If appearing by CourtCall, call in no later than 8:30 a.m. If you wish to appear by CourtCall, you must make arrangements wit h CourtCall by 4:00 p.m. the court day before your scheduled hearing. Requests for approval of a CourtCall appearance made on the morning of the hearing will not be granted. No exceptions will be made. For Zoom appearances, all counsel appearing by Zoom must email the court at Courtr...

Excerpt: ...No notice of intent to appear is required. If you wish to submit on the tentative decision, you may notify the court by email to [email protected]. Please include the hearing date, the case name and case number in the message. You must include all counsel and self -represented parties on your message. The court will not respond to your email. Do not use this email address for any other purpose without the court's express permissio...

Excerpt: ... and Zoom. R efer to the Courtroom 43 webpage for more information about remote appearances. If appearing by CourtCall, call in no later than 8:30 a.m. If you wish to appear by CourtCall, you must make arrangements with CourtCall by 4:00 p.m. the court day before your scheduled hearing. Requests for approval of a CourtCall appearance made on the morning of the hearing will not be granted. No exceptions will be made. For Zoom appearances, all coun...

Excerpt: ...Motion to De em the Truth of the Matters Specified in the Requests for Admission, Set One is DENIED. Defendant's request for monetary sanctions is DENIED. Plaintiff's request for monetary sanctions is GRANTED in the full -requested sum of $1,461.42 to be paid by Defendant and its counsel of record, jointly and severally, by no later than June 13, 2025. Second, Defendant Motion to Deem the Truth of the Matters Specified in the Requests for Admissi...

Excerpt: ...�SI”), and Requests for Pr oduction of Documents (“RPD”) and for $250 in monetary sanctions (opposed). Tentative Ruling: The Court is inclined to rule as follows: Plaintiff's motion is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART, as follows: Plaintiff's motion to compel responses to the initial disclosures is DENIED, without prejudice to his ability to re -serve his demand for initial disclosures. Plaintiff's motion to compel initial responses to th...

Excerpt: ...ourt allows Zoom appearances as a courtesy to parties and counsel. Parties and counsel choosing to appear via Zoom must provide notice of your intent to appear remotely via Zoom before each hearing by email at [email protected], with a subject line that includes “NOTICE TO APPEAR VIA ZOOM.” You will be denied entrance to the hearing via Zoom if you fail to provide e -mail notice to the court by 4:00 p.m. the day before your he...

Excerpt: ...on the tenta tive decision, you may notify the court by email to [email protected]. Please include the hearing date, the case name and case number in the message. You must include all counsel and self -represented parties on your message. The court will not respond to your email. Do not use this email address for any other purpose without the court's express permission. Do not include the court in any email communications between ...

Excerpt: ... vehicle accident. O n November 25, 2020, Defendant filed an Answer to the Complaint. On April 14, 2022, the parties appeared for a Mandatory Settlement Conference and no settlement was reached. Counsel were ordered to submit a stipulation and order to set jury trial. There were no further events in the case until the Court, on January 29, 2025, scheduled a Trial Setting Conference for March 12, 2025. On February 7, 2025, Defendant Komski filed t...

Excerpt: ...o show that th ey are entitled to a new trial under Code of Civil Procedure § 657. Notice to be provided by Cross -Complainants. Background: The Complaint was filed on May 28, 2019 and a First Amended Complaint was filed on September 9, 2019 by Plaintiffs Michele Dineley and Brigette Velasquez against Defendants JM4 Corporation dba Hill Street Café, Myung “Michael” Lee, Jung “Rachel” Lee, Jose “Chuy” Ruiz -Garcia, M & Tony's Touch I...

Excerpt: ... finds that re asonable inferences can be drawn that supports the jury's verdict. Analysis: “The court, before the expiration of its power to rule on a motion for a new trial, either of its own motion, after five days' notice, or on motion of a party against whom a verdict has been rendered, shall render judgment in favor of the aggrieved party notwithstanding the verdict whenever a motion for a directed verdict for the aggrieved party should h...

Excerpt: ...ross -Complainant Lisa Lopez's Cross -Complaint The Court sua sponte take judicial notice pursuant to Evidence Code §452(d) that Plaintiff Roberta Lopez is deceased. (See In particular, Plaintiff's counsel Christopher Nettesheim attached a copy of Roberta's death certificate to his October 31, 2024 declaration attached to Plaintiff's November 1, 2024 ex parte application to substitute in Stuart Jacobson as special administrator for the deceased ...

Excerpt: ...all, call in no later than 8:30 a.m. If you wish to appear by CourtCall, you must make arrangements with CourtCall by 4:00 p.m. the court day before your scheduled hearing. Requests for approval of a CourtCall appearance made on the morning of the hearing will not be granted. No exceptions will be made. For Zoom appearances, all counsel appearing by Zoom must email the court at [email protected] with a simultaneous copy to all oth...

Excerpt: ... to Form Int errogatories, Set One is DENIED. Defendant's request for monetary sanctions is DENIED. Plaintiff's request for monetary sanctions is GRANTED in the full amount requested. $1,461.42 to be paid by Defendant and its counsel of record, jointly and severally, by no later than June 13, 2025. Second, Defendant Shadowbrook Stables, LLC's Motion to Compel Plaintiff Jose Guadalupe Troncoso Gonzelez's Responses to Special Interrogatories, Set O...

Excerpt: ...tively, to S tay It Pending Arbitration (Opposed) Tentative Ruling: The Court denies Defendants Diversified Restaurant Group, LLC's, Angel City Bell, LLC's, and Mauricio Huerta's request for an order compelling arbitration of the claims in Plaintiff Dulce Sofia Gonzalez Flores' Complaint and dismissing or staying this action, on the grounds that (i) Defendants fail to either submit a copy of the alleged arbitration agreement or quote its material...

Excerpt: ...m. If appear ing by CourtCall, call in no later than 8:20 a.m. If you wish to appear by CourtCall, you must make arrangements with CourtCall by 4:00 p.m. the court day before your scheduled hearing. Requests for approval of a CourtCall appearance made on the morning of the hearing will not be granted. No exceptions will be made. For Zoom appearances, all counsel appearing by Zoom must email the court at [email protected] with a si...

Excerpt: .... If you wish to submit on the tentative decision, you may notify the court by email to [email protected]. Please include the hearing date, the case name and case number in the message. You must include all counsel and self -represented parties on your message. The court will not respond to your email. Do not use this email address for any other purpose without the court's express permission. Do not include the court in any email ...

Excerpt: ...-Complainant D ale Menagh's Motion To Deem House Masters, Inc.'s responses to Request for Admissions, Set One Admitted and Request for $3,240.00 in Monetary Sanctions (opposed). Tentative Rulings: Defendant and Cross -Complainant Dale Menagh's Motion to Compel House Masters, Inc.'s responses to Request for Production of Documents and Request for $3,240.00 in Monetary Sanctions is denied as responses have now been served. Defendant and Cross -Comp...

Excerpt: ...asis that he f iled a motion to be relieved as counsel set for hearing on March 13, 2025. The motion was granted. Tentative Ruling: The motions are granted, however the compliance deadline is set out for 90 days so that Plaintiff has time to retain new counsel. Discussion: I. Legal Standard A. Form and Special Interrogatories A party who fails to serve timely responses to interrogatories “waives any right to exercise the option to produce writi...

Excerpt: ...ater than 8: 20 a.m. If you wish to appear by CourtCall, you must make arrangements with CourtCall by 4:00 p.m. the court day before your scheduled hearing. Requests for approval of a CourtCall appearance made on the morning of the hearing will not be granted. No exceptions will be made. For Zoom appearances, all counsel appearing by Zoom must email the court at [email protected] with a simultaneous copy to all other counsel/selfr...

Excerpt: ... Defendant V ictoria Ruffin moves for summary adjudication of three specified issues: (1) that Plaintiff Jane Doe 1 is prohibited from pursuing punitive damages against Ruffin under a negligence theory as a matter of law; (2) that the 2nd Amended Complaint is devoid of factual allegations against Ruffin satisfying the “clear and convincing” standard for punitive damages; and (3) that Ruffin is immune from any personal liability for negligence...

Excerpt: ...irector, or managing agent of Starbucks. Discussion: A motion to strike may be brought to strike any irrelevant, false or improper matter inserted in any pleading or to strike any pleading or part thereof not drawn or filed in conformity with the laws of this state, a court rule or order of court. (Code Civ. Proc., § 436.) The grounds for a motion to strike must appear on the face of the pleading under attack, or from matter which the court may ...

Excerpt: ... a.m. If you wish to appear by CourtCall, you must make arrangements with CourtCall by 4:00 p.m. the court day before your scheduled hearing. Requests for approval of a CourtCall appearance made on the morning of the hearing will not be granted. No exceptions will be made. For Zoom appearances, all counsel appearing by Zoom must email the court at [email protected] with a simultaneous copy to all other counsel/selfrepresented part...

Excerpt: ...upport a cause o f action for Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress. The allegations Plaintiff's opposition fails to identify and additional facts that could be pled to cure the deficiencies in her claim. The elements of IIED under California law are: (1) extreme and outrageous conduct by the defendant with the intention of causing, or reckless disregard of the probability of causing, emotional distress; (2) the plaintiff's suffering sever...

Excerpt: ...hildren were in each other's presence. There are also problems in that the complaint : (1) does not allege Thalia and Sandra were contemporaneously aware that Defendants' conduct was causing their mother injury and (2) does not allege Thalia and Sandra suffered severe emotional distress as a result. Any amendment shall be filed within twenty (20) days. Clerk to give notice. Discussion: Demurrer is only appropriate where the grounds for objection ...

Excerpt: ...Harvest's Applic ation for right to attach order and for issuance of writ of attachment re: Defendant Marcelino Quito aka Marcelino F. Quito Jr.; (3) Harvest's Application for right to attach order and for issuance of writ of attachment re: Defendant Marygrace Quito aka Mary Grace A. Quito; (4) Harvest's Application for right to attach order and for issuance of writ of attachment re: Defendant World Upholstery and Trim, Inc., a California Corpora...