Judge: Lee S. Arian, Case: 23STCV27716, Date: 2025-01-08 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 23STCV27716    Hearing Date: January 8, 2025    Dept: 27

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

 

JENNIFER TOBIAS,

                Plaintiff,

        vs.

 

RONALD DODSON, et al.,

 

                Defendants.

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    CASE NO.: 23STCV27716

 

[TENATIVE] MOTIONS TO COMPEL INITIAL RESPONSES ARE GRANTED

 

Dept. 27 

1:30 p.m. 

January 8, 2024

 

 

 

 

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On August 13, 2024, Defendant Ronald Dodson propounded to Plaintiff Jennifer Tobias Form Interrogatories (Set One), Special Interrogatories (Set One), and Requests for Production (Set One). Responses to the discovery were due on September 16, 2024. On September 26, 2024, I received a second email from Plaintiff’s office advising that responses to the discovery, without objection, would be served by October 4, 2024. However, as of December 5, 2024, no responses have been served.

Plaintiff did not file an opposition or any other document indicating to the Court that responses were served prior to the hearing. The motions are granted. Plaintiff is to provide complete and verified responses to Defendant Ronald Dodson’s Form Interrogatories (Set One), Special Interrogatories (Set One), and Requests for Production (Set One) without objections within 20 days of today.

Defendant requests $455.34 in sanctions for each motion. Sanctions are mandatory, and the Court does not find Defendant to have acted with substantial justification. Thus, sanctions in the amount of $1,300 are entered against Plaintiff and her attorney, 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. 

 

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Hon. Lee S. Arian  

Judge of the Superior Court