Judge: Michelle C. Kim, Case: 20STCV39112, Date: 2023-12-18 Tentative Ruling


Case Number: 20STCV39112    Hearing Date: January 11, 2024    Dept: 31

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA  

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT 

 

LYNN A. IBARRA, 

Plaintiff(s),  

vs. 

 

BROOKFIELD ASSET MANAGEMENT, ET AL., 

 

Defendant(s). 

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      CASE NO: 20STCV39112 

 

[TENTATIVE] ORDER CONTINUING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT 

 

Dept. 31 

1:30 p.m.  

January 11, 2024 

 

Defendants Brookfield Properties Management, (CA) Inc. (erroneously sued and served as Brookfield Asset Management, Brookfield Properties Retail, Inc. and Brookfield Properties Management, LLC) and EYP Realty, LLC (“Defendants”) filed this motion for summary judgment on December 15, 2022, setting it for hearing on January 11, 2024. 

 

The parties refer to surveillance footage and digital copies of photographs purportedly lodged with the Court on a thumb drive, and referenced as Exhibit L to the Declaration of Jerome Doctors (“Doctors”) included in the Compendium of Evidence. (Mot. fn. 3.) However, there is no Exhibit L to Doctors’ declaration, nor has any thumb drive been lodged with the Court.  

 

The Court therefore briefly continues the hearing date from January 11, 2024, to January 18, 2024 at 1:30 p.m. in Department 31 of the Spring Street Courthouse. Defendants must lodge the video with the Court no later than January 12, 2024, preferably via an electronic link for the Court’s ease of access. Aside from this, no further briefing will be allowed. 

 

Moving Defendants are ordered to give notice.   

 

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 

  • Parties are encouraged to meet and confer after reading this tentative ruling to see if they can reach an agreement. 

  • If a party intends to submit on this tentative ruling,¿the party must send an email to the court at¿sscdept31@lacourt.org¿with the Subject line “SUBMIT” followed by the case number.¿ The body of the email must include the hearing date and time, counsel’s contact information, and the identity of the party submitting.¿¿ 

  • Unless¿all¿parties submit by email to this tentative ruling, the parties should arrange to appear remotely (encouraged) or in person for oral argument.¿ You should assume that others may appear at the hearing to argue.¿¿ 

  • If the parties neither submit nor appear at hearing, the Court may take the motion off calendar or adopt the tentative ruling as the order of the Court.¿ After the Court has issued a tentative ruling, the Court may prohibit the withdrawal of the subject motion without leave.¿ 

 

Dated this 10th day of January 2024 

 

  

 

 

Hon. Michelle C. Kim 

Judge of the Superior Court