Judge: Steven A. Ellis, Case: 21STCV21702, Date: 2024-01-18 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 21STCV21702    Hearing Date: January 19, 2024    Dept: 29

Plaintiff’s motion to compel Defendant to provide further responses to Plaintiff’s Requests for Production (Set One), filed on October 26, 2022.

Tentative

The motion to compel is taken off calendar for failure to comply with the requirement set forth in the Eighth Amended Standing Order for Procedures in the Personal Injury Hub Courts to participate in an Informal Discovery Conference.

Discussion

On October 26, 2022, Plaintiff filed a motion to compel Defendant Target Corporation (“Defendant”) to provide further responses to Plaintiff’s Requests for Production (Set One) and a motion to compel Defendant to provide further responses to Plaintiff’s Special Interrogatories (Set One).  The hearing on both motions was set for March 27, 2023.

On January 31, 2023, Plaintiff filed a motion to compel Defendant to provide further responses to Plaintiff’s Requests for Production (Set Two).  The hearing was set for March 3, 2023.

On March 3 and 27, 2023, the Court held that Plaintiff had not engaged in an Informal Discovery Conference (“IDC”), as required by the Eighth Amended Standing Order for Procedures in the Personal Injury Hub Courts (“Standing Order”), directed the parties to participate in an IDC, and continued the hearings to September 8 and 11, 2023.

IDCs were eventually scheduled for December 11 and 13, 2023, and the hearings were continued to January 18 and 19, 2024.

At the IDCs on December 11 and 13, there was no appearance by Plaintiff, the moving party, and the IDCs were placed off calendar.

Given the failure of Plaintiff to participate in an IDC, as required by the Standing Order, the Court takes the motions off calendar.

Conclusion

Plaintiff’s motion to compel Defendant to provide further responses to Plaintiff’s Requests for Production (Set One), filed on October 26, 2022, is taken off calendar.

Moving party is ordered to give notice.