Judge: Maurice A. Leiter, Case: 23STC29408, Date: 2025-04-30 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 23STC29408    Hearing Date: April 30, 2025    Dept: 54

Hearing Date: April 30, 2025 

Department 54, Judge Maurice A. Leiter 

Motion to Compel Responses to Discovery 

Moving Party: Plaintiff Safeco Insurance Company of America 

Responding Party: None 

T/R:     PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO COMPEL RESPONSES TO DISCOVERY IS GRANTED. 

DEFENDANTS TO SERVE RESPONSES TO THE SUBJECT DISCOVERY WITHIN 20 DAYS OF NOTICE OF RULING. 

PLAINTIFF’S REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS IS GRANTED IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,464.00. 

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 was filed. 

When timely responses to interrogatories are not received, “[t]he party propounding the interrogatories may move for an order compelling response to the interrogatories.”  (CCP § 2030.290(b).) “If a party to whom a demand for inspection, copying, testing, or sampling is directed fails to serve a timely response to it. . .  [t]he party to whom the demand for inspection, copying, testing, or sampling is directed waives any objection to the demand, including one based on privilege or on the protection for work product. . . .  The party making the demand may move for an order compelling response to the demand.”  (CCP § 2031.300(a)–(b).) 

Plaintiff moves compel responses to FIs, SIs and RPDs, set one, from Defendant. Plaintiff served the subject discovery on September 3, 2024. Responses were due on October 8, 2024. As of the date of the motion, no responses have been received. Defendant does not oppose this motion to show responses have been served. 

Plaintiff's motion is GRANTED. Plaintiff's request for sanctions is GRANTED in the amount of $1,464.00.