Judge: Lee S. Arian, Case: 23STCV16570, Date: 2025-06-12 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 23STCV16570    Hearing Date: June 12, 2025    Dept: 27

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

 

VERA VANATKO,

            Plaintiffs,

            vs.

 

RACHID AITMBARECK OUHAMMOU, et al.

 

            Defendants.

 

 

 

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    CASE NO.: 23STCV16570

 

[TENTATIVE RULING]

MOTIONS TO COMPEL INITIAL RESPONSES ARE GRANTED

 

Dept. 27

1:30 p.m.

June 12, 2025

On December 17, 2024, Defendant Rachid Aitmbareck Ouhammou served Plaintiff with Form Interrogatories, Set One; Special Interrogatories, Set One; and Request for Production of Documents, Set One.

Plaintiff failed to serve any responses to the discovery requests at issue within the statutory deadline. Defendant attempted to meet and confer by sending a letter on March 13, 2025. Defendant has yet to receive any discovery responses or replies to his meet and confer attempts to date.

Defendant now moves to compel Plaintiff’s initial responses.

Plaintiff did not file an opposition or any other document indicating that the responses at issue were served prior to the hearing. Accordingly, the motion is granted. Plaintiff is ordered to serve complete, verified responses to Defendant’s Form Interrogatories, Special Interrogatories, and Request for Production of Documents, Set One, within 20 days of the date of this order, without objections.

The Court further finds that Plaintiff did not act with substantial justification. Sanctions in the amount of $1,500 are ordered against Plaintiff and her attorney of record, jointly and severally, payable to Defendant 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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