Judge: Thomas D. Long, Case: 22STCV08160, Date: 2025-06-12 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 22STCV08160    Hearing Date: June 12, 2025    Dept: 48

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

On April 24, 2024, Plaintiff Prometheus Management LLC entered into a settlement with Defendant Vincent Mehdizadeh.  On May 15, 2025, Plaintiff filed a motion to enforce the settlement.

Courts may enter judgments pursuant to written settlements signed by the parties.  (Elyaoudayan v. Hoffman (2003) 104 Cal.App.4th 1421, 1428; Code Civ. Proc., § 664.6.)  Strict compliance with the statutory requirements is necessary before a court can enforce a settlement agreement.  (Sully-Miller Contracting Co. v. Gledson/Cashman Construction, Inc. (2002) 103 Cal.App.4th 30, 37.)  The party seeking to enforce a settlement “must first establish the agreement at issue was set forth ‘in a writing signed by the parties’ (§ 664.6) or was made orally before the court.  [Citation.]”  (Harris v. Rudin, Richman & Appel (1999) 74 Cal.App.4th 299, 304.)

Defendant agreed to pay Plaintiff a total of $30,000.00, in the form of six monthly payments of $5,000.00.  (Kim Decl., Ex. 1, ¶ 3.)  The settlement agreement states that the first payment “shall be delivered by May 1, 2025,” and five subsequent monthly payments “shall be delivered by the first of each consecutive month, beginning June 1, 2025, and ending with final payment on October 1, 2025.”  (Kim Decl., Ex. 1, ¶¶ 3.1.1, 3.12.)  Defendant has not made any payments.  (Kim Decl. ¶ 6.)

Plaintiff seeks entry of judgment in the principal amount of $30,000.00, plus $345.24 in prejudgment interest, $1,635.00 in contractual attorney fees for enforcing the settlement, and $91.34 in costs.  (See Kim Decl., Ex. 1, ¶ 3.3.2 [attorney fees provision].)

The unopposed motion to enforce settlement is GRANTED.  Plaintiff is ordered to submit a proposed judgment within five days.

A Non-Appearance Case Review Re: Submission of Proposed Judgment is scheduled for June 25, 2025 at 9:00 a.m.

Moving party to give notice.

Parties who intend to submit on this tentative must send an email to the Court at SMCDEPT48@lacourt.org indicating intention to submit.  If all parties in the case submit on the tentative ruling, no appearances before the Court are required unless a companion hearing (for example, a Case Management Conference) is also on calendar.

         Dated this 12th day of June 2025