Judge: Lee S. Arian, Case: 21STCV27305, Date: 2025-01-31 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 21STCV27305    Hearing Date: January 31, 2025    Dept: 27

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

 

PATRICIA AMEZQUITA

                        Plaintiff,

            vs.

 

CITY OF HUNTINGTON PARK, et al

 

                        Defendants.

 

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    CASE NO.: 21STCV27305

 

[TENTATIVE RULING] MOTION TO COMPEL FURTHER RESPONSES IS DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE

 

Dept. 27

1:30 p.m.

January 31, 2024

On July 6, 2021, Plaintiff filed the present premises liability case. On March 26, 2024, Cross-Complainant Sully Miller Contracting Company moved the Court to compel Cross-Defendant City of Huntington Park to provide further responses to its Requests for Production (RFP), Set Two. Cross-Complainant has not scheduled or participated in an Informal Discovery Conference (IDC) regarding the discovery responses at issue before filing the present motion.

The Personal Injury Hub Courts will not entertain Motions to Compel Further Discovery Responses unless the parties have participated in an IDC. (Eighth Amended Standing Order for Procedures in the Personal Injury Hub Court at p. 7.) The Court may deny or continue a Motion to Compel Further Responses if the parties do not schedule and complete an IDC before the hearing date. (Id.)

The parties are required to participate in an IDC to attempt to resolve any outstanding discovery disputes before a motion to compel further can be heard.

Because no IDC has been held or scheduled before the hearing or filing of the present motion, the motion is denied without prejudice.

Parties who intend to submit on this tentative must send an email to the Court at SSCDEPT27@lacourt.org indicating intention to submit on the tentative as directed by the instructions provided on the court’s website at www.lacourt.org.  Please be advised that if you submit on the tentative and elect not to appear at the hearing, the opposing party may nevertheless appear at the hearing and argue the matter.  Unless you receive a submission from all other parties in the matter, you should assume that others might appear at the hearing to argue.  If the Court does not receive emails from the parties indicating submission on this tentative ruling and there are no appearances at the hearing, the Court may, at its discretion, adopt the tentative as the final order or place the motion off calendar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hon. Lee S. Arian

Judge of the Superior Court