Defendants’ Request for Judicial Notice is granted.   Plaintiff’s Request for Judicial Notice is denied as no motion to amend was filed on March 22, 2016 or at any other time.   Plaintiff’s Feb. 2, 2016 second amended complaint is...

Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel Further Responses to Requests for Production of Documents pursuant to CCP 2031.310 is granted in part and denied in part.   The Motion to Compel a Further Response to requests 4, 8, and 9 is denied....

Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel Further Responses to Special Interrogatories pursuant to CCP 2030.300 is granted in part and denied in part.   The motion to compel a further response to special interrogatories 1 and 2 is denied. Plaintiff’s special interrogatories...

Defendants’ Request for Judicial Notice is granted.   Defendants’ general demurrer to the first cause of action for Aiding and Abetting Breach of Trust based on the running of the statute of limitations is sustained without leave to amend. There...

Defendants’ Request for Judicial Notice is granted.   Defendants’ general demurrer to the first cause of action for Aiding and Abetting Breach of Trust based on the running of the statute of limitations is sustained without leave to amend. There...

Plaintiffs’ Application for Preliminary Injunction is granted. The Court concludes, based on the evidence before it and based on the applicable law, that Plaintiffs have met their burden under CCP 526(a) of showing a likelihood of prevailing on the merits...

The unopposed Motion to Seal Court Records is denied. Petitioner cites to no authority that allows a party to initiate, by petition in Superior Court, an action to seal the records in a civil case file for another division of...

Defendants’ special demurrer to Plaintiff’s first and second causes of action based on lack of capacity is overruled. It cannot be determined from the face of the complaint whether or not Plaintiff has obtained a certificate of registration pursuant to...

The Court construes Defendant’s Motion to Transfer and Consolidate as a Motion to Relate the instant case with case no. 2012-00039995 and grants that motion pursuant to Calif. Rule of Court 3.300. Even though this motion should have been filed...

The Motion to Strike Punitives by Defendant Rosendo Tavarez is granted with ten days leave to amend to allege facts supporting imposition of punitives. While the case of Taylor v Superior Court (1979) 24 Cal.3d 890, upheld allegations of punitive...