Judge: Lee S. Arian, Case: 23STCV4880, Date: 2025-06-10 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 23STCV4880    Hearing Date: June 10, 2025    Dept: 27

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

On March 7, 2025, Defendant City of Los Angeles served Plaintiff its Form Interrogatories, Set One; Requests for Production of Documents, Set One; and Special Interrogatories, Set One. On May 5, 2025, Defendant’s counsel emailed Plaintiff’s counsel to follow up on the outstanding discovery responses, to which Plaintiff’s counsel replied that the responses would be provided shortly. To date, however, Defendant asserts it has not received any of the discovery responses at issue. Defendant now moves to compel initial responses.

Plaintiff did not file an opposition or submit any other filing indicating to the Court that responses have been served prior to the hearing. Accordingly, the motions are granted. Plaintiff is ordered to serve complete and verified responses to Defendant’s Form Interrogatories, Set One; Special Interrogatories, Set One; and Requests for Production of Documents, Set One, without objections, within 20 days of the date of this order.

Furthermore, Plaintiff did not act with substantial justification, and therefore the Court orders monetary sanctions in the amount of $1500 against Plaintiff and her counsel 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.