Judge: Michelle C. Kim, Case: 21STCV03426, Date: 2023-08-15 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 21STCV03426    Hearing Date: August 15, 2023    Dept: 31

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA  

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT 

 

GRACIELA SANDEZ, 

Plaintiff(s), 

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ALICIA JANE HENFREY, ET AL., 

 

Defendant(s). 

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      CASE NO: 21STCV03426 

 

[TENTATIVE] ORDER FINDING (1) MOTIONS TO COMPEL AND (2) MOTIONS TO COMPEL FURTHER MOOT 

 

Dept. 31 

1:30 p.m.  

August 15, 2023  

 

1. Motions to Compel 

On December 28, 2022, Defendant Alicia Jane Henfrey (“Henfrey”) filed motions to compel Plaintiff Graciela Sandez (“Plaintiff”) to provide verified responses, without objections, to set one of form interrogatories, special interrogatories, and request for production of documents (“RPDs”). Plaintiff served verified responses to all of Defendant Henfrey’s propounded discovery on January 3, 2023. Therefore, the motions to compel are moot. Because the verified responses were served in advance of the hearing date, the request for monetary sanctions is denied.  

 

2. Motions to Compel Further 

On March 20, 2023, Defendant Henfrey filed motions to compel Plaintiff’s further responses to the same set of discovery: set one of form interrogatories, special interrogatories, and RPDs.  

On June 15, 2023, counsels for Plaintiff and Defendant Henfrey appeared at the Informal Discovery Conference (“IDC”). The issues were deemed resolved. (Min. Order, June 15, 2023.) Pursuant to the discussion held at the IDC, counsels represented to the Court that a stipulation would be filed on counsels’ agreement. (Ibid.) To date, no such stipulation has been filed. However, given that no oppositions to the motions to compel further were filed, and based upon the representations made at the IDC, the Court finds these motions moot. The Court declines to award any monetary sanctions.  

 

Moving Defendant is 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 14th day of August, 2023 

 

  

 

 

Hon. Michelle C. Kim 

Judge of the Superior Court