Judge: Nick A. Dourbetas, Case: 2022-01242971, Date: 2022-09-30 Tentative Ruling

1. Motion to Compel Answers to Form Interrogatories
2. Motion to Compel Response to Requests for Admissions

1. Motion to Compel Responses to Form Interrogatories, Set One:

Defendant Kohl’s Inc.’s motion to compel initial responses to its first set of form interrogatories is GRANTED. (See Code Civ. Proc., § 2030.290; see also Sinaiko Healthcare Consulting, Inc. v. Pacific Healthcare Consultants (2007) 148 Cal.App.4th 390, 406.)

Plaintiff Travis Adam Hatfield is ORDERED to provide verified responses without objections to defendant’s first set of form interrogatories, Nos. 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 6.2, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 12.2, 12.3, and 17.1, within fourteen (14) days of notice.

Monetary sanctions in the amount of $960.00 are GRANTED in favor of defendant Kohl’s, Inc. and against plaintiff Travis Adam Hatfield, payable within thirty (30) days of notice.

2. Motion to Compel Further Responses to Requests for Admission, Set One:

Defendant Kohl’s, Inc.’s motion to compel further responses to its first set of requests for admission is GRANTED. (See Code Civ. Proc., § 2033.290; see also id., § 2033.240, subd. (a); Appleton v. Superior Court (1988) 206 Cal.App.3d 632, 636.)

Plaintiff Travis Adam Hatfield is ORDERED to provide verified, further responses without objections to defendant’s first set of requests for admission, Nos. 1-32, within fourteen (14) days of notice.

Monetary sanctions in the amount of $1,260.00 are GRANTED in favor of defendant Kohl’s, Inc. and against plaintiff Travis Adam Hatfield, payable within thirty (30) days of notice.

Defendant shall give notice of all of the above.