Judge: Michelle C. Kim, Case: 23STCV18607, Date: 2024-01-22 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 23STCV18607    Hearing Date: March 27, 2024    Dept: 31

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA  

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT 

 

ROBERTO FRAUSTO ACEVEDO, 

Plaintiff(s), 

vs. 

 

LOS ANGELES COUNTY METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, ET AL., 

Defendant(s). 

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Case No.: 23STCV18607 

 

[TENTATIVE] ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO BE RELIEVED AS COUNSEL  

 

Dept. 31 

1:30 p.m. 

March 27, 2024 

 

 

Plaintiff Roberto Frausto Acevedo (“Plaintiff”) attorney of record, Albert Abkarian, Esq. of Abkarian and Associates (“Counsel”), moves to be relieved as counsel contending relief is necessary because of trouble communicating with Plaintiff to provide legal services. Counsel declares he has been made aware that Plaintiff may be held in a correctional facility.  

 

Counsel declares the moving papers were served on Plaintiff at his last known address. Counsel declares the address was confirmed by speaking with Plaintiff’s brother-in-law, who provided that the current address for Plaintiff is still the address on his driver license. Counsel has filed proof of service of the notice of motion and motion, declaration and proposed order on Plaintiff and Defendant. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.1362(d).)    

 

The motion is unopposed and GRANTED; the ruling is effective upon filing proof of service of the final order. Trial is currently set for January 31, 2025. Therefore, there is sufficient time for Plaintiff to seek other counsel or otherwise prepare prior to trial. 

 

Moving Counsel 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 26th day of March 2024 

 

  

 

 

Hon. Michelle C. Kim 

Judge of the Superior Court