Judge: Teresa A. Beaudet, Case: 23STCV03744, Date: 2023-11-27 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 23STCV03744    Hearing Date: November 27, 2023    Dept: 50

Superior Court of California

County of Los Angeles

Department 50

Defendant Status Collection & Co., Inc. (“Defendant”) moves for an order to compel Plaintiff Ace Investment Services, LLC (“Plaintiff”) “to provide responses to the First Set of General Form Interrogatories.” Defendant also moves for an order to compel Plaintiff to “provide responses to the First Set of Requests for Production of Documents.” Defendant seeks monetary sanctions in connection with both motions. Plaintiff opposes both. 

Defendant’s motions will be continued to a new date as set forth below. NO HEARINGS WILL TAKE PLACE ON NOVEMBER 27, 2023.  

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(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 motions 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(f)(2).) If the parties resolve their discovery disputes before the IDC date, Defendant is ordered to take both the IDC and the motions off calendar as soon as possible. 

Defendant is ordered to provide notice of this Order. 

DATED:  November 27, 2023                       ________________________________

Hon. Rolf M. Treu

Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court