$640 Sanctions

BRANDON SCOTT PERRY LOPEZ VS NICOLE MONIQUE Los Angeles Superior Court Case Number BC653285.

According to the Los Angeles County online case summary and the complaint filed in this personal injury car accident case, plaintiffs are represented by attorney David Azizi.




From the court Lawzilla believes this is what happened:

Attorney David Azizi represents the plaintiffs in this case.

The defendant served discovery on Mr. Azizi's clients. This involved requests to admit certain facts as true, requests to produce documents, and written questions to answer.

Responses were due in about thirty days, and so were any objections by the attorney to any discovery requests that were improper. However, nothing was apparently forthcoming from the Azizi law firm.

Defendants then filed motions to compel.

After reviewing the situation the judge ordered fast responses to the document requests and written questions. Complete responses would be due in just ten days.

For the requests for admissions the judge said they would be deemed admitted unless responses were made before the hearing on the motions. Often, having facts admitted against a party can be devastating to their case, if not terminal to the claims.




From the court's docket we do not see any response from David Azizi to the motions to compel.

The judge then sanctioned counsel of record, the Law Office of David Azizi $640 for discovery abuse. The plaintiff were also similarly sanctioned.




After the judge issued a tentative order the motion was scheduled for a hearing.

No one appeared as the attorneys, included David Azizi, agreed to the tentative ruling, which became the final order of the court.







$980 Sanctions

Elmer Arana v Martha Ruth Trejo Los Angeles Superior Court Case Number BC705533.

According to the Los Angeles County online case summary and the complaint filed in this personal injury car accident case, plaintiffs are represented by attorney David Azizi.




The defendant served two different requests for Azizi's client to answer questions, and a request to produce documents.

After not receiving responses three motions to compel were filed.

In a tentative ruling the judge ordered responses within ten days.




The judge also sanctioned attorney David Azizi $980 for discovery abuse.




The motions were then scheduled for a court hearing, at which the judge confirmed the tentative order as the court's final ruling.

David Azizi, Esq., was sanctioned $980.







$1060 Sanctions

Betty Cline v Foothill Transit Los Angeles Superior Court Case Number 18STCV05127.

According to the complaint filed in this personal injury car accident case, plaintiffs are represented by attorney David Azizi.




From the court Lawzilla believes this is what happened:

Attorney David Azizi represents the plaintiff in this case.

The defendant served discovery on Mr. Azizi's client. This involved two requests to answer written questions and a request to produce documents

Responses were due in about thirty days, and so were any objections by the attorney to any discovery requests that were improper. However, nothing was apparently forthcoming from the Azizi law firm.

Defendants then filed motions to compel.

After reviewing the situation the judge ordered responses to the discovery requests. Complete responses would be due in just ten days.




The judge then sanctioned counsel of record, David Azizi, Esq. $1060 for discovery abuse. His client was also sanctioned.




After the judge issued a tentative order the motion was scheduled for a hearing.

David Azizi did not appear.

The court's order says "No appearance by or for plaintiff is made this date and no communication with the Court as to why there is no appearance."

The judge then confirmed the tentative ruling as the final order of the court.







$520 Sanctions

Sharon Lyle v Long Beach Community College District Los Angeles Superior Court Case Number BC696763.

According to the complaint filed in this personal injury dangerous condition case, plaintiff is represented by the David Azizi law firm.




The online case docket lists David Azizi as the attorney of record.




From the court Lawzilla believes this is what happened:

Azizi's client's deposition was being taken and then it was suspended and to be continued on a future date.

When defense counsel tried to schedule the continued deposition the Azizi law firm did not respond.

Defendant then filed a motion to compel.




The judge in a tentative ruling said the motion would be granted.




The judge also ordered $520 in sanctions against plaintiff's attorney of record.




The motion then proceeded to a hearing. After considering the papers and arguments of counsel, the judge adopted the tentative ruling as the final order of the court, including the $520 in sanctions.

Would you hire David Azizi to be your attorney?

With multiple sanctions and repeated misconduct we wonder if this is the type of representation one would expect to get from David Azizi.

Lawzilla doesn't know what happened with the payment of Azizi's numerous sanctions, but believe attorney sanctions can be a serious matter. Lawzilla found a California State Bar order, involving a different attorney, indicating that being sanctioned and violating a court order to pay the sanctions can lead to State Bar discipline for failing to competently perform legal services.




In the Cline case previously referenced, the judge subsequently issued an additional sanctions order terminating claims because the original discovery order was not complied with: "The action is dismissed as to both Transdev Services, Inc. and Foothill Transit for Plaintiff's failure to comply with the court's order of 5/10/19, requiring Plaintiff to provide verified responses without objection to all discovery within 10 days"

David Azizi was admitted to the California Bar in 1998. Bar Number 198803.

Law Offices of David Azizi
3435 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1800
Los Angeles, California 90010

Law School: Southwestern University

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