Judge: John J. Kralik, Case: 25PDUD00502, Date: 2025-04-18 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 25PDUD00502    Hearing Date: April 18, 2025    Dept: NCB

 

Superior Court of California

County of Los Angeles

North Central District

Department B

 

 

universal air properties llc,

 

                        Plaintiff,

            v.

 

shake keryanof, et al.,  

 

                        Defendants.

 

Case No.: 25PDUD00502

 

  Hearing Date:  April 18, 2025

 

 [TENTATIVE] order RE:

motions to compel discovery responses; requests for sanctions

 

 

There are 4 motions on calendar.  On March 20, 2025, Plaintiff Universal Air Properties, LLC (“Plaintiff”) filed 3 motions to compel initial responses from Defendant Shake Keryanof (“Defendant”) for: (1) Form Interrogatories – Unlawful Detainer (“FROG”), set one; (2) Special Interrogatories (“SROG”), set one; and (3) Request for Production of Documents (“RPD”), set one.  Plaintiff also filed a motion for order deeming Requests for Admissions (“RFA”), set one, admitted. 

On March 6, 2025, Plaintiff served on Defendant the discovery requests.  As of the filing of the motions, Plaintiff states that it has not received responses from Defendant. 

On April 2, 2025, the Court held a hearing on an ex parte application to advance the hearing on these motions.  Plaintiff’s counsel represented he received all the discovery from Defendants, but represented that he did not want to take the motions off-calendar as he intended to seek sanctions.  The Court ordered the parties to meet and confer for a minimum of 15 minutes to try to resolve some of the case issues before April 22, 2025 (the date of the trial setting conference). 

Plaintiff’s motions to compel responses to the FROG, SROG, and RPD are denied as moot as Plaintiff represented it was in receipt of discovery responses.  For the same reason, Plaintiff’s motion for an order deeming the RFAs admitted is denied.

The only remaining issue is sanctions.  Plaintiff seeks $960 in sanctions per motion (= 1 hour on the motion + 2 anticipated hours for the reply and to attend the hearing at $450/hour, plus $60 in filing fees).  The request is granted in the total sum of $1,000 on the 4 motions, plus $240 in filing fees.  Defendant and his counsel of record, jointly and severally, are ordered to pay monetary sanctions in the amount of $1,240 to Plaintiff, by and through counsel, within 20 days of notice of this order.

Plaintiff shall provide notice of this order.

 

 

DATED: April 18, 2025                                             ___________________________

                                                                              John J. Kralik

                                                                              Judge of the Superior Court