Judge: Maurice A. Leiter, Case: 20STCV09984, Date: 2025-01-29 Tentative Ruling



Case Number: 20STCV09984    Hearing Date: January 29, 2025    Dept: 54

Superior Court of California

County of Los Angeles

 

Kumi Kawamura and Hana Kawamura, 

 

 

 

Plaintiffs,

 

Case No.:

 

 

20STCV09984

 

vs.

 

 

Tentative Ruling

 

 

My Management Co., Inc.,

 

 

 

Defendant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hearing Date: January 29, 2025

Department 54, Judge Maurice A. Leiter

Motion to Vacate Terminating Sanctions

Moving Party: Plaintiff Kumi Kawamura

Responding Party: None

 

T/R:   PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO VACATE TERMINATING SANCTIONS IS DENIED.

 

PLAINTIFF TO NOTICE.

 

If the parties wish to submit on the tentative, please email the courtroom at SMCdept54@lacourt.org with notice to opposing counsel (or self-represented party) before 8:00 am on the day of the hearing.

The Court considers the moving papers. No opposition has been received.

 

Plaintiff moves to vacate the Court’s July 2023 order granting terminating sanctions against Plaintiff for Plaintiff’s repeated failure to respond to discovery. Plaintiff asserts that she believed her attorney was responding to discovery while he represented her, and that various family medical issues prevented her from participating in the action.

 

There are no proofs of service attached to the motion. Plaintiff must serve a noticed motion on all parties to the action to allow them to respond.

 

Plaintiff’s motion is DENIED.