Judge: Maurice A. Leiter, Case: 23STCV04799, Date: 2024-02-28 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 23STCV04799    Hearing Date: February 28, 2024    Dept: 54

Hearing Date: February 28, 2024

Department 54, Judge Maurice A. Leiter

(3) Motions to Compel Responses to Discovery

Moving Party: Defendant Keck Hospital of USC

Responding Party: None

T/R:   DEFENDANT’S MOTIONS ARE GRANTED.

PLAINTIFFS TO SERVE VERIFIED RESPONSES TO THE SUBJECT DISCOVERY, WITHOUT OBJECTION, WITHIN 15 DAYS OF NOTICE OF RULING.

DEFENDANT 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.

“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).) 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).)

Defendant moves to compel responses to FIs, SIs and RPDs from Plaintiffs. Defendant served the discovery on October 25, 2023. Responses were due on November 29, 2023. As of the date of these motions, Defendant has not received responses. Plaintiffs have not opposed this motion to show responses have been served. Accordingly, the motions are GRANTED.