California Tentative Rulings
Counsel for petitioners/moving parties: Rickey Ivie (Ivie, et al.) Counsel for respondent/opposing party: Joseph Dansehrad Petitioners’ motion for statutory attorney’s fees, etc. (filed 10/14/15) TENTATIVE RULING: None. However, the court offers these initial thoughts in advance of the argument at...
Plaintiff’s request for entry of default judgment TENTATIVE RULING: The request for judgment in the amount of $75,000 is denied due to lack of evidence. The court is prepared to grant judgment in the principal amount of $5,750 plus interest...
Motion for continuance or stay to effect revivorship, etc. (filed 10/2/16) The motion is granted in part. The court finds that the corporate defendant, Backbar HQ, Inc. (Backbar), has made a payment or payments purporting to be “any outstanding tax...
Matters: PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION(s) TO COMPEL DEFENDANT AMIR SALIMPOUR TO SERVE WRITTEN RESPONSES, ETC. (filed 10/22/15) TENTATIVE RULING: The unopposed motion(s) by plaintiff to compel defendant Amir Salimpour to serve on plaintiffs verified written responses to plaintiffs’ CCP §2013 demand for...
Case management conference OSC re entry of default judgment Tentative ruling re request for default judgment: Having received on 10/21/15 plaintiff’s request for default judgment, the court GRANTS the request for entry of default judgment as to each cause of...
Counsel for plaintiff/opposing party: Jay Rothman (Rothman, etc.) Counsel for defendants/demurring parties: Jason Kim; Roland Au; John Kim; Diana Cho (L.O. Kim, etc.) Defendants’ demurrer to plaintiff’s second amended complaint (filed 9/29/15) TENTATIVE RULING: Plaintiff has not filed a stand-alone...
Counsel for plaintiff/opposing party SFPP, L.P.: Steven Strauss; M.Ray Hartman III; Summer Wynn; Catherine O’Connor (Cooley LLP) Counsel for defendant/moving party Union Pacific Railroad Company: Douglas Robinson; Brian Ziska (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P.) MATTERS: Union Pacific’s motion to stay...
Counsel for plaintiffs/opposing party: Steven Lowe; Aleksandra Hilvert (Lowe, etc.) Counsel for defendants/demurring parties: Brian Grossman; Aaron Gladstein (Tesser, etc.) Defendants’ demurrer to complaint (filed 9/11/15) TENTATIVE RULING The demurrer to the First, Second, and Sixth Causes of Action is...
Counsel for plaintiff/opposing party: Patricia Rodriguez Counsel for defendant/moving party U.S.Bank: Robin Wright; Joshua Hernandez (Wright, etc.) Defendant’s demurrer to the second amended complaint (SAC); motion to strike (both filed 9/22/15) TENTATIVE RULING (1) Defendants’ demurrer to the SAC is...
Plaintiff’s/cross-defendants’ counsel: Yaw-Jiun (Gene) Wu; Mark Flewelling; Steven Telles (Anglin, et al.) Defendants’ and cross-complainants’ counsel: Mary Der-Parseghian Defendant’s motion to quash business records subpoena to custodian of records of Central Escrow, Inc. (filed 8/7/15) TENTATIVE RULING The Motion to...