Lawzilla Additional Information: The “Tagliere Declaration” refers to attorney Suzie Tagliere

18-CIV-03368 JENNIFER STEPHENSON, ET AL. VS. ROBIN LOVE, ET AL.

ROBIN LOVE SERENO PROPERTIES
MICHAEL G. YORK HEATHER A. BARNES

RENEWED MOTION AGAINST THE LOVE CROSS-COMPLAINANTS TO COMPEL RESPONSES TO DISCOVERY AND PRODUCTION, TO HAVE REQUEST FOR ADMISSIONS DEEMED ADMITTED, AND FOR MONETARY SANCTIONS BY CROSSDEFENDANT SERENO PROPERTIES DBA SERENO GROUP TENTATIVE RULING:

The Motion of Cross-Defendant Sereno Properties (“Cross-Defendant”) to Compel Discovery Responses and Production, and to Have Requests for Admissions Deemed Admitted, is GRANTED.

Cross-Complainants Robin Love and Sean Love (“Cross-Complainants”) are to provide responses, without objections, to Cross-Defendant’s Special Interrogatories, Set One, Form Interrogatories, Set One, and Request for Production of Documents, Set One, and to produce all responsive documents to the Request for Production, Set One.

Further, the truth of the matters and the genuineness of documents at issue in CrossDefendant’s Request for Admissions, Set One, are deemed admitted against CrossComplainants.

Cross-Defendant’s Request for Monetary Sanctions is GRANTED as to the $60.00 filing fee for this motion, but the remainder is DENIED. Cross-Defendant failed to provide competent evidence to support the sanctions amount. The Tagliere Declaration indicates this motion was prepared by Heather Barnes. (Tagliere Declaration, ¶5.) However, Ms. Barnes has not provided a declaration attesting to the time she spent drafting the motion.

Responses to the discovery and payment of the $60.00 is due to Cross-Defendant by Cross-Complainants within 10 days of service of written notice of entry of this order on Cross-Complainants.

If the tentative ruling is uncontested, it shall become the order of the Court. Thereafter, counsel for Cross-Defendant shall prepare a written order consistent with the Court’s ruling for the Court’s signature, pursuant to California Rules of Court, Rule 3.1312, and provide written notice of the ruling to all parties who have appeared in the action, as required by law and the California Rules of Court.