Judge: Theresa M. Traber, Case: 24STCV27743, Date: 2025-05-29 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 24STCV27743    Hearing Date: May 29, 2025    Dept: 47

Defendant UMRO Realty Corp. moves for consolidation of this case with several other pending actions, or, in the alternative, for permission to file a petition for coordination and a stay of the action pending coordination.

Petitions for coordination pertain to the management of civil actions in different courts sharing common questions of fact or law. (See Code Civ. Proc. Sec. 404.) Here, however, all of the actions with which the motion is concerned are pending before the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles—i.e., before one court, not different courts. Coordination is therefore not an appropriate remedy for the issues presented by this motion. As to the request for consolidation, that measure is only available once all cases which are purportedly related are in fact deemed to be related. (Los Angeles Superior Court Local Rule 3.3(g).) Moreover, the motion must be filed in and heard by the judge in the lead case—i.e., the oldest case on file, which in this matter is Randall v. Kim, et al., Case No. 24STCP01314, pending in Stanley Mosk Department 38. (See Cal. Rules of Court 3.350(a).) Thus, if the cases are not deemed related, the Court has no power to grant this motion, and, even if they are deemed related, the motion for consolidation would have to be heard in the court with the lead case, not in Department 47.

Accordingly, Defendant UMRO Realty Corp.’s Motion to Consolidate or for Permission to Permit Filing of Petition for Coordination is DENIED.

Moving party to give notice.