Judge: William A. Crowfoot, Case: 24NNCP00269, Date: 2025-03-28 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 24NNCP00269    Hearing Date: March 28, 2025    Dept: 3

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - NORTHEAST DISTRICT

 

RAMIRO PADILLA,

                    Petitioner(s),

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NORTH LIGHT SPECIALTY INSURANCE GROUP,

 

                    Respondent(s).

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     CASE NO.:  24NNCP00269

 

[TENTATIVE] ORDER RE: MOTION TO COMPEL FURTHER DISCOVERY RESPONSES

 

Dept. 3

8:30 a.m.

March 28, 2025

 

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On February 7, 2025, Ramiro Padilla (“Petitioner”) filed this motion for an order compelling respondent North Light Specialty Insurance Group (“Respondent”) to serve further responses to Special Interrogatories, Set One, Nos. 1-9 and 20-24 and pay sanctions of $3,242.50.

A party that fails to respond to discovery within the 30-day time limit waives objections to the discovery, including claims of privilege and work product protection. (Code Civ. Proc. § 2030.290(a).) Here, Petitioner served Special Interrogatories, Set One on Respondent on July 23, 2024, but no responses were received from Respondent until January 21, 2025. There is no evidence that Petitioner ever provided Respondent an extension to its 30-day deadline to respond. (Motion, Talebi Decl., ¶ 4.) Accordingly, Respondent’s objections are untimely, waived, and overruled. The motion to compel further is GRANTED. Sanctions are imposed against Respondent and counsel of record, jointly and severally, in the reduced amount of $1,485, consisting of 3 hours at Petitioner’s counsel’s hourly rate of $475 and a $60 filing fee.

         

Dated this 28th day of March 2025

 

 

 

 

       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.