Judge: William A. Crowfoot, Case: 23AHCV01638, Date: 2025-06-06 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 23AHCV01638    Hearing Date: June 6, 2025    Dept: 3

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - NORTHEAST DISTRICT

On April 1, 2025, plaintiff Ford Motor Credit Company LLC (“Plaintiff”) filed this motion to have the truth of the matters within its Requests for Admissions, Set One, deemed admitted against defendant Jennifer L. Morse (“Defendant”). Plaintiff also requests the Court impose sanctions in the amount of $460.

Where a party fails to timely respond to a request for admission, the propounding party may move for an order that the genuineness of any documents and the truth of any matters specified in the requests be deemed admitted. (Code Civ. Proc., § 2033.280, subd. (b).) The court shall grant a motion to deem admitted requests for admissions, “unless it finds that the party to whom the requests for admission have been directed has served, before the hearing on the motion, a proposed response to the requests for admission that is in substantial compliance with Section 2033.220.” (Code Civ. Proc., § 2033.280, subd. (c).) Where a party fails to provide a timely response to requests for admission, “[i]t is mandatory that the court impose a monetary sanction under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 2023.010) on the party or attorney, or both, whose failure to serve a timely response to requests for admission necessitated this motion.” (Code Civ. Proc., § 2033.280, subd. (c).)

          Defendant failed to file an opposition brief and it does not appear that responses have been served before the hearing. Accordingly, Plaintiff’s motion is GRANTED and Defendant is ordered to pay monetary sanctions in the reduced amount of $260, consisting of 1 hour at Plaintiff’s counsel’s hourly rate of $200 and a $60 filing fee, to be paid within 20 days of the date of this Order.

Moving party to give notice.

Dated this 6th day of June 2025

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.