Judge: Audra Mori, Case: 22STCV08546, Date: 2022-10-10 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 22STCV08546    Hearing Date: October 10, 2022    Dept: 31

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

Defendants Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLC and Jaime Velasco (collectively, “Defendants”) motions to compel further responses to request for production of documents, set one, and special interrogatories, 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.

            Defendants have reserved an IDC for October 31, 2022.  As the Court noted in its order denying Defendants’ ex parte application seeking to advance the IDC, while the Court understands Defendants’ desire to have the motions and IDC heard sooner, the parties are ordered to participate in the IDC as required by the Court’s Standing Order Re: PI Court Procedures.  (Min. Order Aug. 9, 2022.)  The hearing on the motions is continued to December 12, 2022 1:30 p.m. in Department 31 of the Spring Street Courthouse.    

The Court is hopeful the hearing on the motions will not be necessary.  If the parties are unable to resolve all outstanding issues at the IDC, the parties must submit a joint statement of items in dispute at least two weeks prior to the continued hearing date.  The joint statement must be a single document, with analysis by both parties, addressing each remaining issue. 

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 10^th day of October 2022