Judge: Audra Mori, Case: 20STCV49234, Date: 2022-09-16 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 20STCV49234    Hearing Date: September 16, 2022    Dept: 31

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

Defendants World Oil Corporation, World Oil Marketing Company and Matthew Pakkala (collectively, “Defendants”) initially set the instant motion for summary judgment on February 25, 2022, with it being set for hearing on July 22, 2022.  (Min. Order June 7, 2022.) 

On June 20, 2022, Defendants filed a Notice of Settlement providing that Defendants and Plaintiff have settled the action with Plaintiff agreeing to dismiss the action against Defendants with prejudice.  Defendants state the settlement is contingent upon a finding of good faith.  Pursuant to Defendants’ request, the July 22, 2022 hearing was continued to September 16, 2022.  However, the Court notes that on July 26, 2022, the Court granted Defendants’ application for determination of good faith settlement pursuant to CCP § 877.6. 

No party has filed anything additional relating to the motion for summary judgment, and the application for determination of good faith settlement has now been granted.  Accordingly, the Court presumes the motion is moot and not going forward.  The Court requests that in the future moving counsel promptly take matters off calendar when they become moot or are no longer going forward. 

The Court, thus, takes the motion for summary judgment off-calendar and moving admonishes counsel for not doing so.

Moving Defendants are 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 16^th day of September 2022