Judge: Elaine Lu, Case: 22STCV14330, Date: 2025-03-04 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 22STCV14330    Hearing Date: March 4, 2025    Dept: 9

On March 4, 2025, Counsel for the parties participated in an informal discovery conference with the Court, at the conclusion of which the parties agreed as follows:

By no later than April 1, 2025, Defendant KW Transportation will voluntarily produce all responsive documents to Plaintiff’s Request for Production, Set One, Number 3.

Defendant KW Transportation states (and Plaintiff confirms) that it has already produced documents in response to Plaintiff’s Requests for Production, Set One, Numbers 18 and 22-25.  However, Defendant KW Transportation is still searching for any documents that it might have missed in the production.  By no later than April 1, 2025, Defendant KW Transportation will voluntarily produce all remaining responsive documents to Plaintiff’s Requests for Production, Set One, Numbers 18, and 22-25.

Defendant KW Transportation states (and Plaintiff confirms) that it has already produced Motive Daily Driver Logs for the four named Plaintiffs in response to Plaintiff’s Requests for Production, Set Three, Number 149.  The parties agreed that by April 1, 2025, Defendant KW Transportation shall produce Motive Daily Driver Logs for three additional putative class members in redacted format (redacting out any personal identifying information, including name and contact information).  The three additional putative class members will be selected randomly as follows: (a) sequencing all putative class members alphabetically by last name, and (b) selecting class members 73, 146, and 219.  (If one of these putative class members is a named plaintiff, then Defendant will use the next putative class member in line.)

            By March 14, 2025, Plaintiff will voluntarily serve supplemental, verified, code-compliant responses to Defendant’s Requests for Production, Set One; Defendant’s Form Interrogatories General, Set One; Defendant’s Form Interrogatories Employment Law, Set One; Defendant’s Special Interrogatories, Set One; and Defendant’s Requests for Admissions, Set One.  For any objection(s) that Plaintiff re-asserts, the Court reminds all parties that they must comply with Code of Civil Procedure section 2031.240(b), which requires that the objecting party identify with particularity any document falling within any category of item in a request for production to which an objection is being made and the extend and specific ground for the objection.

Prior to finalizing the instant minute order, the Court posted all of the stipulations above on the Court’s tentative ruling website.  The parties reviewed the tentative minute order, and each party stipulated and agreed that the minute order accurately reflects the parties’ stipulations entered into during today’s IDC.

It is so ordered.

Plaintiff is ordered to download the instant minute order, give notice to all other parties and file formal proof of such.