Judge: Lee S. Arian, Case: 23STCV31766, Date: 2025-03-07 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 23STCV31766    Hearing Date: March 7, 2025    Dept: 27

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

 

CARMEN JONES BUTLER,

            Plaintiff,

            vs.

 

BELLA VISTA PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, et al.,

 

            Defendants.

 

 

 

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    CASE NO.: 23STCV31766

 

[TENTATIVE RULING]

MOTION TO DEEM RFA ADMITTED IS GRANTED

 

Dept. 27

1:30 p.m.

March 7, 2025

On November 19, 2024, Defendants Bella Vista Property Management, Kevin Hirai, and Victoria Hirai served their Requests for Admission (RFA), Set Two, on Plaintiff. The parties met and conferred, and Defendants agreed to extend Plaintiff’s deadline to respond to January 21, 2025. However, as of February 7, 2025, the date of filing the present motion, Plaintiff has failed to provide responses. Defendants now move the Court to deem the contents of its RFA, Set two, admitted.

No opposition has been filed, nor is there any indication that responses were served prior to the hearing. Accordingly, Defendants’ motion is granted, and the contents of Defendants’ RFA, Set Two, are deemed admitted against Plaintiff.

Furthermore, the Court does not find that Plaintiff acted with substantial justification, as no responses were provided even after the agreed-upon extension. Accordingly, sanctions in the amount of $896 are granted against Plaintiff and her counsel, jointly and severally, payable to Defendants within 20 days of today’s date.

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