Judge: Elaine Lu, Case: 22STCV34229, Date: 2023-05-11 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 22STCV34229    Hearing Date: May 11, 2023    Dept: 26

22STCV34229

On May 11, 2023, Counsel for all parties met and conferred
prior to participating in an informal discovery conference with the Court, and
the parties agreed as follows:

(1)  
Within 2 weeks, Defendants will voluntarily serve
code-compliant supplemental responses to Special Interrogatories, Set One and Requests
for Production of Documents, Set One.

(2)  
If Plaintiff is satisfied with the supplemental
responses, Plaintiff will immediately cancel all CRS reservations to take off
calendar the mooted motions to compel further.

(3)  
If Plaintiff is not satisfied with the supplemental
responses, the parties will schedule a mutually convenient informal discovery
conference.

The parties entered into these stipulations in open Court.  Prior to finalizing this minute order, the
Court posted this minute order on the Court’s online tentative ruling website,
and all Counsel agreed to the accuracy of this minute order in reflecting the
parties’ stipulations.

If the parties fully resolve all pending discovery issues
relating to the pending motions to compel further, the moving party must
promptly take any pending motion off-calendar via the Court Reservation System
(“CRS”) and cancel all CRS reservations. 

For any motion to compel further in this action that has
been filed or will be filed in the future, the responding party’s voluntary
service of supplemental responses prior to the hearing will moot all issues for
the motion except for sanctions.  The
parties are ordered to meet and confer regarding sanctions and to file a joint
statement no later than June 5, 2023; the joint statement must advise that
supplemental responses have been served and advise whether the parties have
been able to resolve the sole remaining issue of sanctions.  In order to demonstrate that supplemental
responses have been served thereby mooting a pending motion to compel further,
the responding party must also file and serve a copy of the verified
supplemental responses no later than when the opposition is due.  If the moving party deems that the
supplemental responses remain deficient and/or non-code compliant, the moving party
must timely (within 45 days of service of the supplemental responses) file and
serve a new motion to compel further complying with all statutory requirements,
including a meet and confer regarding the supplemental responses and a separate
statement that includes all responses (original and supplemental).  The moving party may contact Department 26 to
request a further informal discovery conference to discuss the remaining
disputes following the service of supplemental responses.  The parties are ordered to file a joint
statement of items remaining in dispute no later than 5 days before the further
IDC.

All parties are ordered to appear on June 8, 2023 at 8:30 am
for a discovery status conference and OSC re cancellation of all CRS
reservations for discovery motions.

The Court Clerk shall give electronic notice to Plaintiff.

Plaintiff shall file proof of service of this order on all
other parties.