Judge: Teresa A. Beaudet, Case: 20STCV49938, Date: 2024-01-08 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 20STCV49938    Hearing Date: January 8, 2024    Dept: 50

Superior Court of California

County of Los Angeles

Department 50

Defendant County of Los Angeles (“Defendant”) moves for an order compelling Plaintiff Albrik Levick Gharibian (“Plaintiff”) to serve responses to Form Interrogatories – Employment Law, Set One (1) in its entirety. Defendant also seeks an order imposing a monetary sanction against Plaintiff and his attorneys, Mnatz Law Group, in the amount of $3,202.50.

Defendant’s motion will be continued to a new date as set forth below. NO HEARING WILL TAKE PLACE ON JANUARY 8, 2024.   

Pursuant to the Court’s power to “amend and control its process and orders so as to make them conform to law and justice” (Code Civ. Proc., § 128, subd. (a)(8)), the Court orders the parties in this case to participate in an Informal Discovery Conference (“IDC”). (Note:¿The Court’s policy regarding IDCs appears in the Courtroom Information available in Dept. 50 and on the Court’s website.)¿Lead or other designated counsel for the parties with full authority are ordered to participate in person in an IDC. After consulting with opposing counsel regarding available dates, Defendant must make a prompt reservation for the IDC using the Court’s online reservation system. Defendant must file Dept. 50’s one-page IDC form in the department seven days prior to the IDC, and the responding parties may file the same form in the department setting forth a response three days prior to the IDC.  

Once Defendant has confirmed an IDC date, Defendant must use the Court’s online reservation system to continue the motion to a post-IDC discovery hearing date. The parties are ordered to have with them whatever materials are needed to make the IDC session productive and successful. Prior to the IDC date, lead or other designated counsel for the parties, with full authority, are to meet and confer, in person or via telephone in a further attempt to resolve as many of the issues as possible before the IDC. (See CRC Rule 3.670, subd. (f)(2).) If the parties resolve their discovery disputes before the IDC date, Defendant is ordered to take both the IDC and the motion off calendar as soon as possible. 

Defendant is ordered to provide notice of this Order. 

DATED:  January 8, 2024                              ________________________________

Hon. Teresa A. Beaudet

Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court