Judge: Robert B. Broadbelt, Case: 22STCV05806, Date: 2024-05-06 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 22STCV05806    Hearing Date: May 6, 2024    Dept: 53

Superior Court of California

County of Los Angeles – Central District

Department 53

 

 

angela zoreh farsad nezhad, a/k/a angela farsad ;

 

Plaintiff,

 

 

vs.

 

 

alliance health choice, inc. , et al.;

 

Defendants.

Case No.:

22STCV05806

 

 

Hearing Date:

May 6, 2024

 

 

Time:

10:00 a.m.

 

 

 

[tentative] Order RE:

 

plaintiff’s motion to compel responses to special interrogatories

 

 

MOVING PARTY:                 Plaintiff Angela Zoreh Farsad Nezhad          

 

RESPONDING PARTY:       Unopposed

Motion to Compel Responses to Special Interrogatories

Plaintiff Angela Zoreh Farsad Nezhad (“Plaintiff”) filed the pending motion to compel responses to special interrogatories on February 26, 2024, moving the court for an order (1) compelling defendant Alliance Health Choice, Inc. (“Defendant”) to serve responses to Plaintiff’s Special Interrogatories, and (2) awarding sanctions in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant in the amount of $2,460.

Also on February 26, 2024, Plaintiff filed an ex parte application requesting that the court advance the hearing on her motion because it was set for hearing after trial.  (Pl. Feb. 26, 2024 Ex Parte App., pp. 1:24-2:3.) 

On February 28, 2024, the court issued an order (1) granting Plaintiff’s ex parte application, (2) ordering that the hearing on Plaintiff’s motion to compel Defendant’s responses to special interrogatories was advanced from November 19, 2024 to May 6, 2024, and (3) ordering Plaintiff to give notice of this order.  (Feb. 28, 2024 Order, pp. 1:25-2:1, 2:10.)  However, Plaintiff has not filed a proof of service with the court establishing that Plaintiff has given Defendant and all other parties who have appeared in this action notice of the new hearing date on this motion.  Thus, it appears that Defendant has not received notice of the May 6, 2024 hearing date on Plaintiff’s motion to compel its responses to Plaintiff’s Special Interrogatories.

The court therefore exercises its discretion to continue the hearing on Plaintiff’s motion to compel responses to special interrogatories to ensure that Defendant receives notice of the hearing date on the motion.

ORDER

            The court orders that the hearing on plaintiff Angela Zoreh Farsad Nezhad’s motion to compel responses to special interrogatories is continued to June 13, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in Department 53.

            The court orders plaintiff Angela Zoreh Farsad Nezhad (1) to give notice of this ruling to defendant Alliance Health Choice, Inc. and to all other parties who have appeared in this action, and (2) to file with the court the notice of ruling and a proof of service of the notice of ruling establishing that defendant Alliance Health Choice, Inc. and all other parties who have appeared in this action have been served with the notice of ruling no later than May 13, 2024.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

 

DATED:  May 6, 2024

 

_____________________________

Robert B. Broadbelt III

Judge of the Superior Court