Judge: Lee S. Arian, Case: 22STCV34357, Date: 2025-04-21 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 22STCV34357    Hearing Date: April 21, 2025    Dept: 27

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

 

WEIXIN LIU,      

            Plaintiff,

            vs.

 

MONIKA UTKINA, et al.

 

            Defendants.

 

 

 

 

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CASE NO.: 22STCV34357

 

[TENTATIVE RULING]

MOTIONS TO COMPEL ARE GRANTED

 

Dept. 27

1:30 p.m.

April 21, 2025

On April 12, 2024, Defendants Monika Utkina and Lilia Rosenstein served their  Form Interrogatories, Set One, on Plaintiff. On the same date, Defendants also served their Special Interrogatories, Set One, and a Demand for Inspection and Production of Documents and Things, Set One, on Plaintiff. As of this date, Plaintiff Weixin Liu has not served any responses to the discovery.

Defendants now move the Court to compel responses to the outstanding discovery. Plaintiff did not file an opposition or submit any filing indicating that responses were served prior to the hearing. Accordingly, the motion is granted.

Plaintiff is ordered to serve complete and verified responses to Defendants’ Form Interrogatories, Set One; Special Interrogatories, Set One; and Request for Production of Documents, Set One, without objections, within 20 days of the date of this order.

Further, the Court finds that Plaintiff did not act with substantial justification, and sanctions in the amount of $860 are imposed against Plaintiff and his attorney of record, payable to Defendants within 20 days of the date of this order.

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

 

 




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