Judge: Ashfaq G. Chowdhury, Case: EC065795, Date: 2025-01-21 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: EC065795    Hearing Date: January 21, 2025    Dept: E

The Court’s tentative is as follows:

1. to rule in favor of plaintiff on all claims
2. not to award punitive damages.

The Court’s tentative is to find that the defense witnesses were not credible.

The Court would like the plaintiff to address the following questions:

1. Has the plaintiff established his burden on all claims?
2. If so, what damages has plaintiff established he is entitled to?

The Court would like the defendants to address the following questions:

1. Was the testimony of the defendants credible?
2. Were the purported sources of income for purchases of the properties at issue credible?
3. What were the given reasons for the various transfers of large sums of money between the various entities that defendants were involved with? Were those given reasons credible?
4. How should the Court receive the testimony of the defendants that they either did not know why various amounts of money were being transferred between entities or simply did not care why the money was being transferred?
5. Is unclean hands a defense in this action?
6. Is laches a defense?
7. What is the defense defendants are relying on? The Court is not clear on this.
8. Are defendants asking the Court to revisit the legitimacy of the original judgment obtained by plaintiff?