Judge: Robert B. Broadbelt, Case: 19STCV35158, Date: 2023-08-11 Tentative Ruling

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Case Number: 19STCV35158    Hearing Date: October 23, 2023    Dept: 53

Superior Court of California

County of Los Angeles – Central District

Department 53

Motion to Compel Further Responses to Requests for Production of Documents

Plaintiff Roya Ranjbari (“Plaintiff”) filed the pending motion to compel further responses to requests for production of documents on February 16, 2022, moving the court for an order (1) compelling defendant Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company (“Defendant”) to provide further responses to Plaintiff’s Requests for Production of Documents, Set One, and (2) awarding sanctions in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant.

On January 18, 2023, the court issued an order granting Defendant’s motion to stay proceedings pending appeal and ordered that this action is stayed pending completion of Plaintiff’s appeal of the court’s May 10, 2022 order denying the petition to set aside or vacate the arbitration award.  In the Joint Status Conference Report filed on July 21, 2023, the parties informed the court that the appeal was still pending and that they anticipate that oral argument will not be scheduled before January 2024.

Pursuant to the court’s January 18, 2023 order staying this action, the court orders that the hearing on plaintiff Roya Ranjbari’s motion to compel further responses to requests for production of documents, filed on February 16, 2022, is vacated, subject to being rescheduled if the stay is lifted.

The court orders Plaintiff to give notice of this order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED:  October 23, 2023

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Robert B. Broadbelt III

Judge of the Superior Court