Judge: William A. Crowfoot, Case: BC717505, Date: 2022-08-22 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: BC717505    Hearing Date: August 22, 2022    Dept: 27

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES - CENTRAL DISTRICT

 

ASMIK ABGARYAN,

                   Plaintiff(s),

          vs.

 

DANIEL HARRELL, et al.,

 

                   Defendant(s).

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      CASE NO.: BC717505

 

[TENTATIVE] ORDER RE: PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO COMPEL FURTHER RESPONSES TO SPECIAL INTERROGATORIES, SET TWO AND REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS

 

 

Dept. 27

1:30 p.m.

August 22, 2022

 

          Plaintiff Asmik Abgaryan (“Plaintiff”) moves for a court order compelling Defendant Daniel Harrell (“Defendant”) to serve further responses without objections to Special Interrogatories, Set Two.

Pursuant to the Court’s Seventh Amended Standing Order for Procedures in the Personal Injury Hub Courts Effective May 16, 2022, motions to compel further discovery responses will not be heard until the parties have engaged in an Informal Discovery Conference (“IDC”).

          As pointed out in the opposition, no IDC has been held in this action nor has moving party scheduled an IDC. 

          Accordingly, the hearing on the motion to compel further responses to special interrogatories is stayed until further order of the Court.  The Court sets an OSC on September 26, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. as to why Plaintiff’s motion to compel further should not be dismissed for Plaintiff’s failure to timely schedule an IDC. 

Plaintiff is ordered to use the online reservation management system to schedule an IDC, which must go forward per the terms set forth in the Seventh Amended Standing Order.  The IDC must be scheduled at least two weeks prior to the continued hearing date on the motion to compel further responses.  If the above date is not convenient for the parties and/or an IDC cannot be scheduled, for whatever reason, within the necessary time period, Plaintiff must use the online reservation system to promptly continue the hearing on the motion to a date at least two weeks after the IDC.

 

Moving party to give notice. 

Parties who intend to submit on this tentative must send an email to the Court at SSCDEPT27@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.