Case Number: BC512087    Hearing Date: July 24, 2014    Dept: 92

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES – CENTRAL DISTRICT

OMELBENI MAMMADOVA,
Plaintiff(s),
vs.

BERBERIAN ENTERPRISES, INC, ET AL.,

Defendant(s).

CASE NO: BC512087

[TENTATIVE] ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S UNOPPOSED MOTIONS TO COMPEL

Dept. 92
1:30 p.m. — #26
July 24, 2014

Defendant, Berberian Enterprise’s Motions to Compel are Granted. Plaintiff is ordered to serve verified responses to the outstanding discovery, without objections, within ten days. Defendant’s request for sanctions is granted in the amount of $705 total for all three motions. Plaintiff and her attorney of record, jointly and severally, are ordered to pay sanctions to Defendant, by and through counsel of record, in the amount of $705, within twenty days.

Defendant propounded special interrogatories, form interrogatories and RPDs on Plaintiff on 8/27/13. To date, despite an extension of time to respond, Plaintiff has not served responses. Defendant therefore seeks an order compelling Plaintiff to respond, without objections, to the outstanding discovery and to pay sanctions.

Defendant’s motion to compel is granted. Plaintiff is ordered to serve verified responses to form interrogatories, special interrogatories and RPDs, without objections, within ten days. CCP §§2030.290(a),(b), 2031.300(a),(b).

Sanctions are mandatory. §§2030.290(c), 2031.300(c). Defendant seeks sanctions in the amount of $705 total for all three motions – 1 ½ hours to meet and confer and prepare each motion at $175/hour, plus three filing fees. The Court finds one hour to prepare each of these form motions to compel is sufficient to compensate Defendant. The meet and confer effort consisted of a single letter demanding responses. The Court finds only one appearance is necessary for the three motions, and finds a total of 1 ½ hours is reasonable. The Court therefore awards a total of three hours of attorney time at $175/hour, or $525 in attorneys’ fees. The Court also awards three filing fees of $60 each, or $180 in costs.

Dated this 24th day of July, 2014

Hon. Elia Weinbach
Judge of the Superior Court