Judge: Audra Mori, Case: 21STCV18433, Date: 2022-10-26 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 21STCV18433    Hearing Date: October 26, 2022    Dept: 31

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

Plaintiff Rocio Campos’s (“Plaintiff”) motions to compel further responses to form interrogatories, set one, special interrogatories, set one, and request for production of documents, set one, are premature and will be continued to a new date as set forth below.  The parties are ordered to participate in an Informal Discovery Conference (“IDC”) as required by the Court’s Standing Order Re: PI Court Procedures, which is available on the LA Superior Court’s website, under the Personal Injury section.

The Court previously noted that Plaintiff has numerous motions to compel further set to be heard between this date and November 2, 2022.  The Eighth Amended Standing Order provides, “PI Hub Courts may deny or continue a Motion to Compel Further Responses to Discovery unless the parties have participated in an IDC before the scheduled hearing on a motion to compel further discovery responses.”  Plaintiff was instructed to reserve IDCs for each motion to compel further immediately and use the Court Reservation System to continue the Motions to Compel Further to occur after the IDCs.  Plaintiff was put on express notice that failure to do so could result in denial of all pending Motions to Compel Further.

Unless by the time of the hearing today Plaintiff uses the Court Reservation System to continue the Motions to Compel Further to occur after IDCs, the motions may be denied.

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 26^th day of October 2022