Judge: Audra Mori, Case: 19STCV19606, Date: 2023-03-09 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 19STCV19606    Hearing Date: March 9, 2023    Dept: 31

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

Plaintiff Christopher Nieves (“Plaintiff”) filed this motion to compel further responses to special interrogatories, set two, against Defendant Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“Defendant”) on February 14, 2023, setting it for hearing for March 9, 2023.  On February 17, 2023, Plaintiff filed an amended notice of motion providing that the instant motion was being continued to March 13, 2023, to be heard with Plaintiff’s motion to compel further responses to requests for admissions, set one, on that date.  Because both of Plaintiff’s motions to compel further involve similar discovery issues, the hearing on the motion to compel further responses to special interrogatories is continued to March 13, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. in this Department.

In the future, moving counsel is ordered to use the Court’s online Reservation System to continue the hearing date themselves. 

Plaintiff 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 9^th day of March 2023