Judge: Lee S. Arian, Case: 21STCV45371, Date: 2025-03-20 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 21STCV45371    Hearing Date: March 20, 2025    Dept: 27

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

On October 8, 2024, Defendant served Plaintiff with Form Interrogatories, Set One, Requests for Production (RFP), Set One, and Special Interrogatories, Set One.

Defendant has yet to receive any responses and now moves the Court to compel Plaintiff’s initial discovery responses.

No opposition or any other filing indicating that the responses have been served prior to the hearing has been submitted. Accordingly, the motions are granted. Plaintiff is ordered to serve complete and verified responses to Defendant’s RFP, Set One, Special Interrogatories, Set One, and Form Interrogatories, Set One, within 20 days of today, without objections.

Further, the Court finds that Plaintiff acted without substantial justification. Sanctions in the amount of $1,200 for all three motions are imposed against Plaintiff and her attorney of record, jointly and severally, payable to Defendant within 20 days of today.

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.