Judge: William A. Crowfoot, Case: 24NNCV00672, Date: 2025-03-24 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 24NNCV00672    Hearing Date: March 24, 2025    Dept: 3

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - NORTHEAST DISTRICT

 

MARIA ALDRATE-WILSON

                    Plaintiff(s),

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VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES, et al.

 

                    Defendant(s).

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     CASE NO: 24NNCV00672

Related to Case No. 24NNCV06414

 

 

[TENTATIVE] ORDER RE: MOTION TO CONSOLIDATE

 

Dept. 3

8:30 a.m.

March 24, 2025

 

Defendants Villa Esperanza Services and Derric Clark (collectively, “Defendants”) seek an order consolidating Case No. 24NNCV00672 (the “Aldrate-Wilson Action”) with Case No. 24NNCV06414 (the “Cummings Action”). Defendants argue that the two Actions arise out of the same motor vehicle accident that occurred on January 10, 2023. The Cummings and Aldrate-Wilson Actions were deemed related by the Court on January 17, 2025.

The motion is unopposed and it is undisputed that there are overlapping issues of fact that justify consolidation. (Code Civ. Proc., § 1048.) However, the motion is procedurally defective because a notice of motion was not filed in the Cummings Action. (CRC 3.350, subd. (a)(1)(C).) Nevertheless, the Court notes that all parties from both Actions have been served and have received notice. Accordingly, the Court GRANTS the unopposed motion and consolidates the two actions for all purposes, including trial.

The Aldrate-Wilson Action is the lead case. (CRC 3.350, subd. (b).) All future papers must be filed in the Aldrate-Wilson Action with the caption and case number of the Aldrate-Wilson Action and include the case number of the Cummings Action. (CRC 3.350, subds. (c)-(d).) All future hearing dates must be reserved in the Aldrate-Wilson Action and all future hearing dates currently pending in the Cummings Action are vacated.        

The Court sets a Case Management Conference for ________, at 8:30 a.m. in Department 3.

Defendants are ordered to give notice and file a notice of this order in both cases.

 

 

Dated this 24th 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.