Case Number: BC610848 Hearing Date: April 04, 2018 Dept: 97

Superior Court of California
County of Los Angeles
Department 97

Juan Carlos Escobar,

Plaintiff,

v.

William Rowe, et al.,

Defendant.

Case No.: BC610848

Hearing Date: April 4, 2018 (10:00 am)

[TENTATIVE] order RE:

motion to compel further responses to discovery; request for sanctions

Defendant William Rowe (“Defendant” or “the moving party”) has filed a motion to compel plaintiff Juan Carlos Escobar’s (“Plaintiff”or “the opposing party”) further responses to the Requests for the Production of Documents, set two.

Pursuant to the Court’s current Amended General Order Re: Personal Injury Court Procedures, which is available on the Los Angeles Superior Court website, lead or other designated counsel for the parties with full authority, must participate in an Informal Discovery Conference (“IDC”) before the Court will hear any motion to compel further responses to discovery. Here, the moving party has failed to schedule and participate in an IDC prior to the current hearing date on this motion to compel further. Therefore, the instant motion to compel further responses is CONTINUED to June 7, 2018 at 10:00 am to allow the moving party an opportunity to schedule and participate in an IDC in compliance with the Amended General Order.

The moving party must make a reservation for the IDC using the Court’s online reservation system (CRS) after consultation with opposing counsel regarding a mutually convenient date. Once the moving party has reserved an IDC date, the moving party must serve notice of the IDC date, time, and location upon the opposing party and file proof of service of such. For all future hearings and trial dates after April 13, 2018, the parties are ordered to appear at the Court’s new location effective April 16, 2018: 312 North Spring Street, Dept. 5, Los Angeles, CA 90012. The moving party’s notice of the IDC must note the Court’s new location if the IDC reservation is for a date after April 16, 2018.

Prior to the IDC date, lead or other designated counsel for the parties, with full authority, are requested to meet and confer, face-to-face, to resolve as many of the issues as possible before the IDC. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.670, subdivision (f)(2).) If the parties resolve their discovery disputes before the IDC date, the moving party is ordered to take both the IDC and motion off calendar as soon as possible by canceling the reservations on CRS. At the IDC, Counsel should bring with them whatever materials are needed to make this court-ordered meet-and-confer session productive and successful.

If the moving party fails to reserve and participate in an IDC as set forth above prior to the continued June 7, 2018 hearing on the motion to compel further responses, the Court will take the motion off calendar.

The moving party shall provide notice of this order.

DATED: April 4, 2018 ___________________________

Elaine Lu

Judge of the Superior Court