Judge: Joel L. Lofton, Case: 22AHCP00489, Date: 2023-08-17 Tentative Ruling
Case Number: 22AHCP00489 Hearing Date: September 13, 2023 Dept: X
Tentative Ruling
Judge Joel L. Lofton,
Department X
HEARING DATE: September 13, 2023 TRIAL
DATE: No date set.
CASE: SHUAI LUO, an
individual; v. LIQUN ZHU, an individual; and LIPING LUO, an individual
CASE NO.: 22AHCP00489
APPLICATION
TO BE ADMITTED PRO HAC VICE
MOVING PARTY: Plaintiff Shuai Luo
RESPONDING PARTY: No
response filed.
SERVICE: Filed August 3, 2023
RELIEF
REQUESTED
Plaintiff applies to have Yue (Serena) Yang (“Yang”) and Agnus F. Ni
(“Ni”) admitted pro hac vice in this action.
BACKGROUND
This case arises of Shuai Luo claim for
recognition and enforcement of foreign money judgment based on California’s
Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act (“Act”) (Code Civ.
Proc. § 1713, et seq.).
Plaintiff filed this complaint on November 30, 2022.
TENTATIVE RULING
Plaintiff’s application to have
Yang and Ni admitted pro hac vice is GRANTED.
DISCUSSION
Plaintiff applies to have Yue (Serena) Yang (“Yang”) and Agnus F. Ni
(“Ni”) admitted pro hac vice in this action.
“A person who is not a
licensee of the State Bar of California but who is an attorney in good standing
of and eligible to practice before the bar of any United States court or the
highest court in any state, territory, or insular possession of the United
States, and who has been retained to appear in a particular cause pending in a
court of this state, may in the discretion of such court be permitted upon
written application to appear as counsel pro hac vice, provided
that an active licensee of the State Bar of California is associated as
attorney of record.” (California Rules of Court Rule 9.40, subdivision (a).)
The
application must state:
(1) The applicant's residence
and office address;
(2) The courts to which the applicant has been
admitted to practice and the dates of admission;
(3) That the applicant is a
licensee in good standing in those courts;
(4) That the applicant is
not currently suspended or disbarred in any court;
(5) The title of each court
and cause in which the applicant has filed an application to appear as
counsel pro hac vice in this state in the preceding two
years, the date of each application, and whether or not it was granted; and
(6) The name, address, and
telephone number of the active licensee of the State Bar of California who is
attorney of record.
(California Rules of Court, Rule
9.40, subd. (d).)
Yang
provides she is a resident of Washington and provides her business address.
(Yang Decl. ¶ 2.) She provides she was
admitted to practice in the State of New York in April 2021, and that she is in
good standing. (Id. ¶ 3.) She provides she is not suspended or
disbarred in any court. (Id. ¶ 4.) She provides she has not applied to
appear pro hac vice in this state in the last two years. (Id. ¶
7.) The application fails to state the name, address, and telephone number of
the counsel of record. However, that information can be found in the caption of
Xinlin Morrow’s declaration. (Morrow Decl. ¶ 1-3.)
Ni provides he is a resident of Washington and provides
his business address. (Ni Decl. ¶ 2.) He provides the courts he is admitted to
practice in and the dates of admission. (Id. ¶ 3.) He provides he is in
good standing with all of the courts listed. (Id. ¶ 4.) He provides he
is not currently suspended or disbarred. (Id. ¶ 5.) He provides that in
the last two years he has applied to appear pro hac vice twice in
California state courts and once in a federal court in California. (Id. ¶
8.) The application again is missing the information of the name, address, and
telephone number of the attorney of record, but the information can be found in
the caption Xinlin Morrow’s declaration.
CONCLUSION
Plaintiff’s
application to have Yang and Ni admitted pro hac vice is GRANTED.
Moving
Party to give notice.
Dated: September 13,
2023 ___________________________________
Joel
L. Lofton
Judge
of the Superior Court