Judge Jill Feeney, Case 20STCV46346 2023-01-31 Tentative Ruling

Judge: Jill Feeney, Case: 20STCV46346, Date: 2023-01-31 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 20STCV46346 Hearing Date: January 31, 2023 Dept: 30

Department 30, Spring Street Courthouse

January 31, 2023

20STCV46346

-Motion to Compel Plaintiff’s Further Responses to Request for Production of Documents (Set Four) and Request for Sanctions filed by Defendant USC Verdugo Hills Hospital

-Motion to Compel Plaintiff’s Further Responses to Special Interrogatories (Set Four) and Request for Sanctions filed by Defendant USC Verdugo Hills Hospital

DECISION

Both of these unopposed motions are granted.

Plaintiff is ordered to serve further responses within 30 days after the date of this order.

Discovery sanctions may not be imposed under Section 2023.030, even together with Section 2023.010, absent another provision of the Discovery Act that authorizes the imposition of sanctions. (City of Los Angeles v. Pricewaterhouse Coopers (Court of Appeal, Second District (2022) 2022 WL 12010415.)

Here no sanctions are awarded because neither motion was opposed.

Moving party to provide notice and to file proof of service of such notice within five court days.