Judge: Lee S. Arian, Case: 22STCV16997, Date: 2025-05-08 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 22STCV16997    Hearing Date: May 8, 2025    Dept: 27

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

On May 6, 2025, the parties filed a status report confirming their agreement to narrow the scope of the subpoenas. Specifically, Defendants’ subpoenas will be limited to medical and billing records related only to the following injuries: “Headaches, Nausea, Neck pain, Shoulder pain, Back pain, Jaw clicking, Hip pain, Anxiety, Trouble focusing, Cervical strain, Thoracic back strain, Low back strain, Thyroid nodules, Cervical spine pain, Cervical spine radiculopathy, Cervical spine sprain/strain, Whiplash, Lumbar spine pain, Lumbar spine herniated nucleus pulposus at T12-L1, L1-2, L2-3, L3-4, L4-5 and L5-S1, Lumbar spine strain/sprain, Sciatica, Cervicalgia, Cervical disc disorder with radiculopathy, Lumbago, and Lumbar disc disorder with radiculopathy.” The subpoenas are also limited in time to records from October 13, 2016 to the present.

As the parties are in agreement regarding the scope of the subpoenas, the motion is moot and taken off calendar.

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.