Judge: Teresa A. Beaudet, Case: 23STCV06919, Date: 2024-04-22 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 23STCV06919    Hearing Date: April 22, 2024    Dept: 50

Superior Court of California

County of Los Angeles

Department 50

Defendant Jaime Equihua Garcia dba Equihua Store Fixtures Inc. (“Defendant”) moves for orders compelling a response to Defendant’s Requests for Production of Documents, Set One and Special Interrogatories, Set One, propounded on Plaintiff Carlos Jr. Galvan (“Plaintiff”).

Defendant also moves for “an order deeming as admitted Defendant’s Requests for Admissions, Set One, propounded on Plaintiff,” as well as an “an order to compel a response to the Requests for Admissions, produced [sic] on Plaintiff…” Defendant seeks monetary sanctions in connection with each of the motions.

Defendant’s motions will be continued to a new date as set forth below. NO HEARINGS WILL TAKE PLACE ON APRIL 22, 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 and any self-represented party are ordered to participate in person in an IDC. After consulting with opposing counsel and/or any self-represented party 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 and any self-represented party 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 motions off calendar as soon as possible. 

Defendant is ordered to provide notice of this Order. 

DATED:  April 22, 2024                                ________________________________

Hon. Teresa A. Beaudet

Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court