Judge: William A. Crowfoot, Case: 24NNCV05795, Date: 2025-03-25 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 24NNCV05795    Hearing Date: March 25, 2025    Dept: 3

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - NORTHEAST DISTRICT

On November 14, 2025, petitioner Edgar Grigoryan filed this motion for an order compelling respondent State Farm Mutual Insurance Company to provide further responses to Form Interrogatories (Set One) and for monetary sanctions of $2,400 against Respondent and counsel of record. The motion is unopposed and Respondent fails to meet its burden to show that its objections are properly interposed and that its provided responses are satisfactory. (Williams v. Superior Court (2017) 3 Cal.5th 531, 541-542; Coy v. Superior Court (1962) 58 Cal.2d 210, 222.) Therefore, the motion to compel further responses is GRANTED and the Court imposes sanctions against Respondent and counsel of record, jointly and severally, in the reduced amount of $1,200, consisting of 3 hours at Petitioner’s counsel’s hourly rate of $400. Further responses must be served and sanctions must be paid within 20 days of the date of this Order.  

Dated this 25th day of March 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.