Superior Court of California

County of Los Angeles

Department 50

donya entertainment, inc., Plaintiff, vs. farmers insurance exchange, et al., Defendants.	Case No.:	20STCV17320
	Hearing Date:	August 23, 2022
	Hearing Time:	10:00 a.m.
	[TENTATIVE] ORDER RE: MOTION TO TRANSFER AND COORDINATE RELATED CASE TO THIS COURT FROM ANOTHER SUPERIOR COURT

Defendant Farmers Insurance Exchange moves for an order transferring the case Zia Abhari v. Bacon-Up Corporation, Mazyar Yaghoubian, Farmers Insurance Exchange, Farmers Underwriters Association, Farmers Group, Inc. and Does 1-1000, San Bernardino Superior Court Case No. CIV SB 2200940 (the “Abhari Action”) to this Court, and coordinating the Abhari Action with the instant case. The motion is made “pursuant to Cal. Rules of Court Rules 3.300 and 3.500 and C.C.P. §§ 403 and 404.1 and on the grounds that this case and the Abhari Action are related cases…” (Mot. at p. 2:5-6.)[1]

The Court notes that on July 22, 2022, this Court issued a minute order indicating that “[t]he Court finds that the following cases, 20STCV17320 and CIV SB 2200940, are not related within the meaning of California Rules of Court, rule 3.300(a).”

In light of the foregoing, the Court finds that the instant motion is moot.

DATED: August 23, 2022

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Hon. Teresa A. Beaudet

Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court

[1]Pursuant to Cal Rules of Court, rule 3.300, subdivision (h)(2)(B), “[i]f it is determined that related cases pending in different superior courts should be formally coordinated, the procedures in Code of Civil Procedure section 403 and rule 3.500 must be followed for noncomplex cases, and the procedures in Code of Civil Procedure section 404 et seq. and rules 3.501 et seq. must be followed for complex cases.”