Judge: Michael Small, Case: 24STCV18281, Date: 2025-03-26 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 24STCV18281    Hearing Date: March 26, 2025    Dept: 57

On calendar today in this case are four discovery motions that Plaintiff filed seeking orders compelling Defendant San Fernando Motor Company to provide responses to four types of discovery that Plaintiff propounded on Defendant.  The Court is denying the motions.

In its opposition to the motions, Defendant states that, after the motions were filed, it provided responses to each of the types of discovery and the responses comply with the Civil Discovery Act thereby rendering the motions moot.  The oppositions explain that Defendant belatedly provided the responses after the motions were filed because the discovery was served on Defendant itself rather than on Defendant's counsel.  This service problem would appear to justify the belated responses and render monetary sanctions against Defendant in the form of the attorney's fees that Plaintiff incurred in having to file the motions unwarranted under the circumstances.  Plaintiff did not file a reply brief in support of the motions that addresses the explanation offered in the Defendant's oppositions for the belated responses.