On November 02, 2018 a
Motion,Ex Parte
was filed
involving a dispute between
Abel, Richard,
and
Albini, Ed,
Davis, Dale,
Duval, Jacinda,
Fung, Lenora Verne,
Fung, Verna,
Hing, Bill,
Mccutchan, B Edward, Jr,
Nord, James,
Nord, Jim,
Peritore, Evalina,
Poeng, Justin,
Schulte, D. Mark,
Severson, Richard,
Spiridonoff, Walter,
Sunderland Mccutchan, Inc., A California Corporarion,
Sunderland Mccutchan, Llc, A California Limited Liability Company,
Sunderland Mccutchan, Llp,
Sunderland, Robert J.,
Weil, Nansi Ida,
Zdanek, Matthew,
for 25: Unlimited Professional Negligence
in the District Court of Sonoma County.
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1 JOSEPH S. PICCHI, ESQ. (State Bar No. 157102)
ALEXANDER D. PROMM, ESQ. (State Bar No. 318412)
2 GALLOWAY, LUCCHESE, EVERSON & PICCHI
A Professional Corporation
3 2300 Contra Costa Blvd., Suite 350
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523-2398
4 Tel. No. (925) 930-9090
Fax No. (925) 930-9035
5 Email: jpicchi@glattys.com; apromm@glattys.com
6 Attorneys for Defendants
B. EDWARD McCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; and SUNDERLAND |
7 McCUTCHAN, LLP
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
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IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SONOMA
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RICHARD ABEL, an individual, Case No. SCV263456
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Plaintiff, The Honorable Christopher
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B. EDWARD McCUTCHAN JR., an MOTION TO ENFORCE SETTLEMENT
15 individual; SUNDERLAND/McCUTCHAN, AGREEMENT AND MOTION FOR
LLP, a general partnership; and DOES 1 SANCTIONS UNDER C.C.P. § 128.5 ON
16 through 100, inclusive, BEHALF OF DEFENDANTS B. EDWARD
MCCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J.
17 Defendants. SUNDERLAND; AND SUNDERLAND |
MCCUTCHAN, LLP
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19 Date: November 22, 2023
Time: 3:00 p.m.
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Date Complaint Filed: November 2, 2018
21 Trial: January 5, 2024
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24 TO ALL PARTIES AND TO THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD:
25 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on November 22, 2023 at 3:00 p.m., or as soon
26 thereafter as the matter can be heard in Department 18 of the above-entitled Court,
27 located at the county of Sonoma, California, defendants B. EDWARD MCCUTCHAN, JR.;
28 ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; AND SUNDERLAND
1 | MCCUTCHAN, LLP will and hereby
GALLOWAY, LUCCHESE, __________________________________
EVERSON & PICCHI
2300 Contra Costa Blvd.,
SCV263456: AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO ENFORCE SETTLEMENT 956-10761/ADP/1292879
Suite 350 AGREEMENT AND MOTION FOR SANCTIONS UNDER C.C.P. § 128.5 ON BEHALF OF
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 DEFENDANTS B. EDWARD MCCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; AND
(925) 930-9090
SUNDERLAND | MCCUTCHAN, LLP
1 do move the Court to enforce the settlement agreement agreed to and set forth before
2 this Court on June 6, 2023.
3 This motion is made pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure § 664.6 regarding the
4 agreement made before this Court on June 6, 2023 at the Mandatory Settlement
5 Conference, and Plaintiff ABEL’s failure to abide by the terms of that settlement
6 agreement in bad faith, frivolously, and with the sole purpose of causing unnecessary
7 delay.
8 This combined Motion to Enforce the Settlement and for Sanctions Under C.C.P.
9 § 128.5 between B. EDWARD McCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; and
10 SUNDERLAND | McCUTCHAN, LLP and RICHARD ABEL will be based upon this Notice,
11 the attached Memorandum of Points and Authorities served and filed herewith, the
12 Declaration of Alexander D. Promm, Esq., all pleadings, records and files in this action
13 and upon such other and further evidence as may be presented at the hearing of this
14 motion.
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16 TENTATIVE RULING
17 L&M TENTATIVE RULINGS are available after 2:00 p.m. on the Court day prior to
18 the scheduled hearing: http://www.sonoma.courts.ca.gov OR (707) 521-6881.
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20 Dated: August 10, 2023
GALLOWAY, LUCCHESE, EVERSON
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ALEXANDER D. PROMM, ESQ.
25 Attorneys for Defendants
B. EDWARD McCUTCHAN, JR.;
26 ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; and
SUNDERLAND | McCUTCHAN, LLP
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GALLOWAY, LUCCHESE, __________________________________
EVERSON & PICCHI
2300 Contra Costa Blvd.,
SCV263456: AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO ENFORCE SETTLEMENT 956-10761/ADP/1292879
Suite 350 AGREEMENT AND MOTION FOR SANCTIONS UNDER C.C.P. § 128.5 ON BEHALF OF
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 DEFENDANTS B. EDWARD MCCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; AND
(925) 930-9090
SUNDERLAND | MCCUTCHAN, LLP
1 PROOF OF SERVICE
2 I declare under penalty of perjury that:
3 I am a citizen of the United States and am employed in the County of Contra Costa. I am
over the age of eighteen years and not a party to the within action. My business address
4 is 2300 Contra Costa Boulevard, Suite 350, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523-2398.
5 On the date set forth below, I caused the attached AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION
AND MOTION TO ENFORCE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF
6 DEFENDANTS B. EDWARD MCCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; AND
SUNDERLAND | MCCUTCHAN, LLP to be served on the parties to this action as follows:
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BY ELECTRONIC SERVICE.
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I electronically served a true copy thereof on the parties at said electronic
9 notification addresses as set forth on the attached service list from my electronic
notification address: hehmke@glattys.com. The transmission was reported as
10 complete and without error. C.C.P. § 1010.6(a) and C.R.C. Rule 2.251.
11 BY MAIL.
12 I placed a true copy thereof, enclosed in a sealed envelope with postage thereon
fully prepaid, in the United States mail at Pleasant Hill, California, addressed to the
13 parties as set forth on the attached service list. C.C.P. §§ 1013(a), 2015.5.
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GALLOWAY, LUCCHESE, __________________________________
EVERSON & PICCHI
2300 Contra Costa Blvd.,
SCV263456: AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO ENFORCE SETTLEMENT 956-10761/ADP/1292879
Suite 350 AGREEMENT AND MOTION FOR SANCTIONS UNDER C.C.P. § 128.5 ON BEHALF OF
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 DEFENDANTS B. EDWARD MCCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; AND
(925) 930-9090
SUNDERLAND | MCCUTCHAN, LLP
1 ABEL V. MCCUTCHAN
2 SONOMA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT CASE NO. SCV263456
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5 Mr. Richard Abel Counsel for Plaintiff in propria persona
2222 Cleveland Avenue, Apt. 1002 ***SERVICE MUST BE BY MAIL***
6 Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Fax:
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B. Edward McCutchan, Jr., Esq. Counsel for Defendants JIM NORD
9 Sunderland | McCutchan, LLP and DALE DAVIS
1083 Vine Street, Suite 907
10 Healdsburg, CA 95448
Fax: (707) 284-5527
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GALLOWAY, LUCCHESE, __________________________________
EVERSON & PICCHI
2300 Contra Costa Blvd.,
SCV263456: AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO ENFORCE SETTLEMENT 956-10761/ADP/1292879
Suite 350 AGREEMENT AND MOTION FOR SANCTIONS UNDER C.C.P. § 128.5 ON BEHALF OF
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 DEFENDANTS B. EDWARD MCCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; AND
(925) 930-9090
SUNDERLAND | MCCUTCHAN, LLP
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1 JOSEPH S. PICCHI, ESQ. (State Bar No. 157102) ALEXANDER D. PROMM, ESQ. (State Bar No. 318412) 2 GALLOWAY, LUCCHESE, EVERSON & PICCHI A Professional Corporation 3 2300 Contra Costa Blvd., Suite 350 Pleasant Hill, CA 94523-2398 4 Tel. No. (925) 930-9090 Fax No. (925) 930-9035 5 Email: jpicchi@glattys.com; apromm@glattys.com 6 Attorneys for Defendants B. EDWARD McCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; and SUNDERLAND | 7 McCUTCHAN, LLP 8 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 9 IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SONOMA 10 11 RICHARD ABEL, an individual, Case No. SCV263456 12 Plaintiff, The Honorable Christopher 13 Honigsberg vs. 14 AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION AND B. EDWARD McCUTCHAN JR., an MOTION TO ENFORCE SETTLEMENT 15 individual; SUNDERLAND/McCUTCHAN, AGREEMENT AND MOTION FOR LLP, a general partnership; and DOES 1 SANCTIONS UNDER C.C.P. § 128.5 ON 16 through 100, inclusive, BEHALF OF DEFENDANTS B. EDWARD MCCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. 17 Defendants. SUNDERLAND; AND SUNDERLAND | MCCUTCHAN, LLP 18 19 Date: November 22, 2023 Time: 3:00 p.m. 20 Dept: 18 Date Complaint Filed: November 2, 2018 21 Trial: January 5, 2024 22 23 24 TO ALL PARTIES AND TO THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD: 25 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on November 22, 2023 at 3:00 p.m., or as soon 26 thereafter as the matter can be heard in Department 18 of the above-entitled Court, 27 located at the county of Sonoma, California, defendants B. EDWARD MCCUTCHAN, JR.; 28 ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; AND SUNDERLAND 1 | MCCUTCHAN, LLP will and hereby GALLOWAY, LUCCHESE, __________________________________ EVERSON & PICCHI 2300 Contra Costa Blvd., SCV263456: AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO ENFORCE SETTLEMENT 956-10761/ADP/1292879 Suite 350 AGREEMENT AND MOTION FOR SANCTIONS UNDER C.C.P. § 128.5 ON BEHALF OF Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 DEFENDANTS B. EDWARD MCCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; AND (925) 930-9090 SUNDERLAND | MCCUTCHAN, LLP 1 do move the Court to enforce the settlement agreement agreed to and set forth before 2 this Court on June 6, 2023. 3 This motion is made pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure § 664.6 regarding the 4 agreement made before this Court on June 6, 2023 at the Mandatory Settlement 5 Conference, and Plaintiff ABEL’s failure to abide by the terms of that settlement 6 agreement in bad faith, frivolously, and with the sole purpose of causing unnecessary 7 delay. 8 This combined Motion to Enforce the Settlement and for Sanctions Under C.C.P. 9 § 128.5 between B. EDWARD McCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; and 10 SUNDERLAND | McCUTCHAN, LLP and RICHARD ABEL will be based upon this Notice, 11 the attached Memorandum of Points and Authorities served and filed herewith, the 12 Declaration of Alexander D. Promm, Esq., all pleadings, records and files in this action 13 and upon such other and further evidence as may be presented at the hearing of this 14 motion. 15 16 TENTATIVE RULING 17 L&M TENTATIVE RULINGS are available after 2:00 p.m. on the Court day prior to 18 the scheduled hearing: http://www.sonoma.courts.ca.gov OR (707) 521-6881. 19 20 Dated: August 10, 2023 GALLOWAY, LUCCHESE, EVERSON 21 & PICCHI 22 23 24 By: ALEXANDER D. PROMM, ESQ. 25 Attorneys for Defendants B. EDWARD McCUTCHAN, JR.; 26 ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; and SUNDERLAND | McCUTCHAN, LLP 27 28 2 GALLOWAY, LUCCHESE, __________________________________ EVERSON & PICCHI 2300 Contra Costa Blvd., SCV263456: AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO ENFORCE SETTLEMENT 956-10761/ADP/1292879 Suite 350 AGREEMENT AND MOTION FOR SANCTIONS UNDER C.C.P. § 128.5 ON BEHALF OF Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 DEFENDANTS B. EDWARD MCCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; AND (925) 930-9090 SUNDERLAND | MCCUTCHAN, LLP 1 PROOF OF SERVICE 2 I declare under penalty of perjury that: 3 I am a citizen of the United States and am employed in the County of Contra Costa. I am over the age of eighteen years and not a party to the within action. My business address 4 is 2300 Contra Costa Boulevard, Suite 350, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523-2398. 5 On the date set forth below, I caused the attached AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO ENFORCE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF 6 DEFENDANTS B. EDWARD MCCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; AND SUNDERLAND | MCCUTCHAN, LLP to be served on the parties to this action as follows: 7 BY ELECTRONIC SERVICE. 8 I electronically served a true copy thereof on the parties at said electronic 9 notification addresses as set forth on the attached service list from my electronic notification address: hehmke@glattys.com. The transmission was reported as 10 complete and without error. C.C.P. § 1010.6(a) and C.R.C. Rule 2.251. 11 BY MAIL. 12 I placed a true copy thereof, enclosed in a sealed envelope with postage thereon fully prepaid, in the United States mail at Pleasant Hill, California, addressed to the 13 parties as set forth on the attached service list. C.C.P. §§ 1013(a), 2015.5. 14 15 Executed on August 10, 2023 at Pleasant Hill, California. 16 17 18 Heidi Ehmke 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3 GALLOWAY, LUCCHESE, __________________________________ EVERSON & PICCHI 2300 Contra Costa Blvd., SCV263456: AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO ENFORCE SETTLEMENT 956-10761/ADP/1292879 Suite 350 AGREEMENT AND MOTION FOR SANCTIONS UNDER C.C.P. § 128.5 ON BEHALF OF Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 DEFENDANTS B. EDWARD MCCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; AND (925) 930-9090 SUNDERLAND | MCCUTCHAN, LLP 1 ABEL V. MCCUTCHAN 2 SONOMA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT CASE NO. SCV263456 3 SERVICE LIST 4 5 Mr. Richard Abel Counsel for Plaintiff in propria persona 2222 Cleveland Avenue, Apt. 1002 ***SERVICE MUST BE BY MAIL*** 6 Santa Rosa, CA 95403 Fax: 7 Email: perere1@gmail.com 8 B. Edward McCutchan, Jr., Esq. Counsel for Defendants JIM NORD 9 Sunderland | McCutchan, LLP and DALE DAVIS 1083 Vine Street, Suite 907 10 Healdsburg, CA 95448 Fax: (707) 284-5527 11 Email: emccutchan@sunmclaw.com 12 13 14 15 16 956-10761/ADP/1292879 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4 GALLOWAY, LUCCHESE, __________________________________ EVERSON & PICCHI 2300 Contra Costa Blvd., SCV263456: AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION TO ENFORCE SETTLEMENT 956-10761/ADP/1292879 Suite 350 AGREEMENT AND MOTION FOR SANCTIONS UNDER C.C.P. § 128.5 ON BEHALF OF Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 DEFENDANTS B. EDWARD MCCUTCHAN, JR.; ROBERT J. SUNDERLAND; AND (925) 930-9090 SUNDERLAND | MCCUTCHAN, LLP