Judge: Thomas D. Long, Case: 23STCV15503, Date: 2025-04-03 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 23STCV15503    Hearing Date: April 3, 2025    Dept: 48

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

On February 28, 2025, Defendant DCH Torrance Imports Inc. filed a motion to compel Plaintiff Ying Wang’s further responses to Request for Production of Documents (Set One), Requests For Admission (Set One), Form Interrogatories – General, and Form Interrogatories –  Employment (CRS #: 824488311591).

Each category of discovery (Requests for Production of Documents, Requests for Admission, Form Interrogatories – General, and Form Interrogatories –  Employment) should have been filed as a separate motion, with separate filing fees and hearing reservations.  Despite being scheduled as only one motion and one hearing, the total substance is that of four motions.  This unfairly allows Defendant to take only one hearing reservation (instead of four) and results in an inaccurate projection and accounting of the Court’s workload, inconveniencing both the Court and other litigants.   All parties are ordered not to do this again and are warned that continued action of this type may result in monetary sanctions under Code of Civil Procedure section 177.5.

Because of this calendar imbalance, the Court must continue the hearing.

The Hearing on Motion - Other re Proposed Joint Statement re Defendant DCH Torrance Imports, Inc.'s Motion to Compel Further Responses to and Compliance with Defendant's Request for Production of Documents, Set One, Requests for Admissions, Set One, and Form Interrogatories – General is CONTINUED to May 9, 2025 at 8:30 a.m.

Defendant is ORDERED to pay three additional filing fees no later than May 5, 2025.

If Defendant does not pay three additional filing fees before the continued hearing date, the Court will deny the motion for being improperly filed.  (See Code Civ. Proc., § 436, subd. (b).)

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 3rd day of April 2025