Judge: Audra Mori, Case: 19STCV07163, Date: 2023-03-08 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 19STCV07163    Hearing Date: March 8, 2023    Dept: 31

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

Defendant Michael Vincent Davis (“Defendant”) filed the instant motions to compel further responses to requests for production of documents (“RPDs”), set one, form interrogatories, set one, and special interrogatories, set one, on January 11, 2023.  The parties participated in an Informal Discovery Conference (“IDC”) regarding the discovery on January 31, 2023.  The parties appeared at the IDC, and the issues were deemed resolved.  The parties agreed that Plaintiff would provide substantive verified responses by February 28, 2023, and if responses were provided, the instant motions to compel further would be taken off calendar. 

On February 23, 2023, Plaintiff filed a Statement of Non-Opposition to each motion providing that Plaintiff has agreed to serve verified responses to Defendant and is attempting to finalize the responses.  Any reply from Defendant was due on or before March 1, 2023.  To date, no reply has been received.  Nothing additional relating to the motions to compel further has been filed.  The Court is hopeful that the parties have resolved their dispute and Defendant intends to take the motions to compel off calendar.  If the parties have not resolved their dispute, they must appear at the hearing on the motions.  The hearing date will be continued.  No further briefing will be permitted.   

Defendant is ordered to give notice.   

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:

• Parties are encouraged to meet and confer after reading this tentative ruling to see if they can reach an agreement.
• If a party intends to submit on this tentative ruling, the party must send an email to the court at sscdept31@lacourt.org with the Subject line “SUBMIT” followed by the case number.  The body of the email must include the hearing date and time, counsel’s contact information, and the identity of the party submitting.  
• Unless all parties submit by email to this tentative ruling, the parties should arrange to appear remotely (encouraged) or in person for oral argument.  You should assume that others may appear at the hearing to argue.  
• If the parties neither submit nor appear at hearing, the Court may take the motion off calendar or adopt the tentative ruling as the order of the Court.  After the Court has issued a tentative ruling, the Court may prohibit the withdrawal of the subject motion without leave. 

Dated this 8^th day of March 2023