Judge: William A. Crowfoot, Case: 20STCV13591, Date: 2024-07-15 Tentative Ruling


Case Number: 20STCV13591    Hearing Date: July 15, 2024    Dept: 3

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - NORTHEAST DISTRICT

 

RAOUL RENFROE, et al.,

                    Plaintiff(s),

          vs.

 

GOLDEN MOTEL, et al.,

 

                    Defendant(s).

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     CASE NO.:  20STCV13591

 

[TENTATIVE] ORDER RE: MOTION TO ENFORCE SANCTIONS AGAINST PLAINTIFF AND PLAINTIFF’S COUNSEL  

 

Dept. 3

8:30 a.m.

July 15, 2024

 

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          This case was originally assigned to Department 28 of the Spring Street Courthouse and transferred to Department 3 of the Alhambra Courthouse on April 29, 2024. Earlier, on January 25, 2024, the Honorable Lisa R. Jaskol granted three discovery motions filed by defendant Wang’s Golden Enterprises, Inc. dba Golden Motel (“Defendant”) and ordered Plaintiff Raoul Renfroe to provide further responses to Defendant’s Form Interrogatories, Special Interrogatories, and Requests for Production no later than February 23, 2024. The Court also ordered Plaintiff and counsel of record, Ilan Janfaza (“Janfaza”), to pay sanctions in the amount of $1,120.00 by February 23, 2024. Plaintiff served supplemental responses in April 2024 after Defendant filed a motion for terminating sanctions but has not paid sanctions as ordered.

On May 9, 2024, Defendant filed this motion pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 128 to “enforce monetary sanctions” on Plaintiff and Janfaza.

No additional court order is necessary to “enforce” the order imposing sanctions. As explained in Newland v. Superior Court (1995) 40 Cal.App.4th 608, 615, monetary sanction orders “have the force and effect of a money judgment, and are immediately enforceable through execution, except to the extent the trial court may order a stay of the sanction.”

Accordingly, the motion is DENIED.

Dated this 15th day of July, 2024

 

 

 

 

       William A. Crowfoot

Judge of the Superior Court

 

 

Parties who intend to submit on this tentative must send an email to the Court at ALHDEPT3@lacourt.org indicating intention to submit on the tentative as directed by the instructions provided on the court website at www.lacourt.org. Please be advised that if you submit on the tentative and elect not to appear at the hearing, the opposing party may nevertheless appear at the hearing and argue the matter. Unless you receive a submission from all other parties in the matter, you should assume that others might appear at the hearing to argue. If the Court does not receive emails from the parties indicating submission on this tentative ruling and there are no appearances at the hearing, the Court may, at its discretion, adopt the tentative as the final order or place the motion off calendar.