Defendants John E. Cox, Josephine M. Cox, and Christine Cox’s Motion for Leave to File Third Amended Answer to Second Amended Complaint is granted. “The court may, in furtherance of justice, and on any terms as may be proper, allow...

I.         Motion for JNOV To DENY the motion. Defendants INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, TAN NGOC HO, NHA NGOC TUYET MAI, and LONG NGUYEN move for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.  (CCP 629.) The court DENIES the motion for the reasons...

Motions to Compel Initial Discovery Responses  The Court grants the unopposed Motions by Defendant Tina England to compel Plaintiff Maurice Dickerson to respond to Form Interrogatories, Set One; Special Interrogatories Set One; and Request for Production of Documents, Set One. ...

Case Management Conference/OSC re: Sanctions/Dismissal Continued Hearing of Motion for Order Authorizing Service of Summons Through the California Secretary of State  The Court has considered the further declarations and materials that Plaintiff filed in support of the Motion for Order...

Motions to Be Relieved  Attorney Gary Chambers of the law firm of Chambers, Noronha & Kubota is moving to be relieved from representing the plaintiffs herein, Lestor Nelson, and Bella Willis, a minor, appearing through her guardian ad litem, Victoria...

The demurrer by defendants DLY Logistics, Inc., Xinjiang Deluya International Logistics Co., Ltd., and Ming Chen to the First Amended Complaint is sustained in part, with leave to amend, and overruled in part. The demurrer to the third cause of...

Defendant’s Request For Judicial Notice is GRANTED. Judicial notice is limited to the existence of, the filing/recording of, and the legal effect of the instruments and pleadings, and not as to the truth of disputed facts therein. Defendant Stearns Lending,...

The parties are ordered to meet and confer further in light of the court’s comments below, and plaintiff Bernardy’s motion to quash is taken off-calendar at the present time. See, Townsend v. Superior Court (1998) 61 Cal.App.4th 1431, 1435. First,...

Motion for Summary Judgment and Joinder Defendant Apria Healthcare LLC moves for summary judgment.  Defendant DeVilbiss Healthcare LLC has filed a joinder. However, Plaintiff correctly objects that Defendants violated the mandatory and jurisdictional notice requirements set forth in CCP 437c...

Motion for Summary Judgment      Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment is DENIED. A defendant moving for summary judgment may prevail on the motion in one of three ways: (1) by affirmatively negating at least one of plaintiff’s essential elements; (2)...