Judge: Teresa A. Beaudet, Case: 24STCV11314, Date: 2025-03-21 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 24STCV11314    Hearing Date: March 21, 2025    Dept: 50

Superior Court of California

County of Los Angeles

Department 50

Cross-Complainant Oxford SCS, Inc. (“Oxford”) moves to compel further responses to request for production of documents (set one) from Cross-Defendant Vinatex, Inc. (“Vinatex”).

Oxford’s motion will be continued to a new date as set forth below. NO HEARING WILL TAKE PLACE ON MARCH 21, 2025.  

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 a meet and confer with the Court (“Informal Discovery Conference” or “IDC”). 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, Oxford must make a prompt reservation for the IDC using the Court’s online reservation system. Oxford must file Dept. 50’s one-page IDC form in the department seven days prior to the IDC,[1] and the responding parties may file the same form in the department setting forth a response three days prior to the IDC.  COURTESY COPIES OF THE IDC STATEMENTS ARE TO BE DELIVERED TO DEPT. 50 CONCURRENTLY WITH THEIR filing.

Once Oxford has confirmed an IDC date, Oxford 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, Oxford is ordered to take both the IDC and the motion off calendar as soon as possible.

Oxford is ordered to provide notice of this Order.

DATED:  March 21, 2025                              ________________________________

Hon. Teresa A. Beaudet

Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court