Judge: Michelle C. Kim, Case: THEREISNOEVID, Date: 2023-12-11 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: THEREISNOEVID    Hearing Date: December 11, 2023    Dept: 31

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA  

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT 

 

SHAHNAZ FOROUTANZAD LEVYIM,  

Plaintiff(s),  

vs. 

 

99 CENTS ONLY STORES, ET AL., 

 

Defendant(s). 

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      CASE NO: 22STCV00833 

 

[TENTATIVE] ORDER RE: MOTIONS TO COMPEL FURTHER  

 

Dept. 31 

1:30 p.m.  

December 11, 2023 

 

Defendants 99 Cents Only Stores (“Defendant”) filed its motions to compel Plaintiff Shahnaz Foroutanzad Levyim (“Plaintiff”) to respond further to its propounded discovery.   

 

On November 13, 2023, the parties participated in an Informal Discovery Conference (IDC), wherein the motions would go off calendar if the Court did not hear anything from the parties by December 1, 2023, and any joint filing re: any outstanding issues must be filed by December 5, 2023. (Min. Order, Nov. 13, 2023.)   

 

On December 5, Defendant filed a Status Report in lieu of a joint statement, averring that Plaintiff’s second further responses to Defendant’s request for production of documents (“RPD”), set two, fails to state the good faith efforts done to obtain documents and that Plaintiff failed to provide any documents to RPD requests No. 20 and No. 21.  

 

In light of Defendant’s Status Report and the discussion previously held at IDC, the Court would like to discuss this matter with the parties. Counsel for both parties are ordered to appear at the hearing (the appearances may be remote), and be ready to discuss the aforementioned issues.   

 

Moving party 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 8th day of December 2023 

 

  

 

 

Hon. Michelle C. Kim 

Judge of the Superior Court