Judge: Lisa K. Sepe-Wiesenfeld, Case: 24SMCV00885, Date: 2024-08-06 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 24SMCV00885    Hearing Date: August 6, 2024    Dept: N

TENTATIVE RULING

Plaintiff Citibank, N.A.’s Motion for Order that Matters in Request for Admission of Truth of Facts Be Deemed Admitted is GRANTED. The matters identified in Plaintiff Citibank, N.A.’s Requests for Admission, Set One, are deemed admitted as of the date of entry of this order.

Plaintiff Citibank, N.A. to give notice. 

REASONING

Pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 2033.280, subdivision (b), a “party may move for an order that the genuineness of any documents and the truth of any matters specified in the requests be deemed admitted, as well as for a monetary sanction.” The court “shall” grant the motion to deem requests for admission admitted “unless it finds that the party to whom the requests for admission have been directed has served, before the hearing on the motion, a proposed response to the requests for admission that is in substantial compliance with Section 2033.220.” (Code Civ. Proc., § 2033.280, subd. (c).)

Plaintiff Citibank, N.A. (“Plaintiff”) served Defendant Jon M Leader with its Requests for Admission, Set One, on May 15, 2024. (Mot., Langedyk Decl. ¶ 2, Ex. 1.) To date, no responses have been received. (Mot., Langedyk Decl. ¶ 3.) Accordingly, Plaintiff Citibank, N.A.’s Motion for Order that Matters in Request for Admission of Truth of Facts Be Deemed Admitted is GRANTED. The matters identified in Plaintiff Citibank, N.A.’s Requests for Admission, Set One, are deemed admitted as of the date of entry of this order.