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ROBINSON BRADFORD LLP
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Stockton, CA 95219
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Rxécutive Officer & Clerk
Facsimile: (209) 954-9091 By. Lucaiuorto, Deputy
Attorney for Defendants,
Roseville Petroleum, Inc., Nirmal Singh
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF PLACER -UNLIMITED CIVIL
VOYAGER RESTAURANT GROUP, INC., a CASE NO.: S-CV-0035599
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California corporation
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corporation, GURRAJ SINGH GREWA L, Judge:
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Delaware limited partnership; 2012-S IP-1 Trial: March 19, 2018
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VENTURE LLC, A Delaware limited
liability company as successor to Tennessee
18 State Charted Bank, ROSEVILLE
19 PETROLEUM, INC., a California
corporation, NIRMAL SINGH, and DOES
20 ONE through TWENTY, inclusive
21 Defendants.
22 Defendants Roseville Petroleum Inc. (“RPI”) and Nirmal Singh submit the following
23 settlement conference statement in compliance with California Rules of Court rule
mandatory
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3.1380.
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1. ATTORNEY SUBMITTING STATEMENT
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C. Bradford, Esq., who represents Defendants RPI and Nirmal Singh submits
Attorney, Matthew
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2. PARTIES AND COUNSEL
Parties Counsel
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Paul A. Warner
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Plaintiff,
Inc. 1624 Santa Clara Drive, Suite 220
Voyager Restaurant Group
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Sonora Petroleum Inc.
1730 Sonoma Boulevard
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Defendants, Brian Healy
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Group LP San Francisco, California 94105
Saban Financial
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1 Denea Budde
Defendant,
California Blvd, Suite 1010
12 Parmar LLC 2121 N.
Creek, CA 94596
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Defendant, Unknown
14 Tennessee Commerce Bank
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Cross-Defendant,
16 Mitra Alizadeh
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3. STATEMENT OF FACTS
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as alleged by Plaintiff. Defendants do not agree that the following
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20 facts are allcorrect.
21 Voyager Restaurant Group Inc.. (“Voyager”) alleges in its third amended complaint
22 (“TAC”) that it entered into a lease (“Lease”) on or about August 31, 2011 with Sonora
23 to be Sonora Gasoline Company or “SGC”) as the landlord
Petroleum Inc. (“SPI”) (now alleged
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and Voyager as a tenant, in order to build a Sonic Restaurant on the real property
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CA 95661 (“Real Property”). At all relevant times, Defendant
Foothills Boulevard, Roseville,
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RPL operated an ARCO AM PM on the premises of the Real Property.
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Lease provided that SPI and Gurraj S. Grewal (“Grewal”) were
Plaintiff alleges that the
to make improvements on the Real Property and Plaintiff would
going to loan Plaintiff funds
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eventually open a restaurant on the property. However,
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and 2012-SIP-1, enforced their legal rights pursuant to a
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which prevented ‘SPI and Grewal from having the funds to
loan agreement with SPI and Grewal,
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loan money to Plaintiff for the property improvements.
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alleges that Defendants RPI and Mr. Singh interfered with Plaintiff's
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lease with the receiver and asserting control of the entire premises,
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including the restaurant premises.
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of the Real Property and interfered
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and quiet enjoyment thereof to the detriment and damage to
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does not provide any facts that show a relationship or even
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between Voyager and RPI or Mr. Singh.
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In short, Voyager does not provide any facts as to
a current tenant of the Real Property at issue.
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when or how the RPI tenancy relates to Voyager’s claims.
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5, CONTESTED ISSUES OF FACT AND DEFENSES
almost every fact. Defendants RPI and Mr. Singh contest the allegation
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the terms of Plaintiffs Lease during the relevant periods of time.
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contest any allegation that the alleged conduct by them was
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that it allegedly interfered with Plaintiffs Lease. Defendants RPI
wrongful, beyond the mere fact
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allegation that when Defendants reversed their “previously express
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premises that they only had the Arco AMPM had nothing to do with the
position with regard to the
independently tortious. Defendants RPI and Mr. Singh contest the
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action of taking over the restaurant premises was wrongful conduct.
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Voyager and SPI or SGC. Defendants RPI and Mr. Singh contest
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alleged by Plaintiff, was wrongful or unlawful proscribed by
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regulatory, common law, or another determinable legal standard.
some constitutional, statutory,
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allegations:
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to lend $250,000 to Voyager Restaurant Group, Inc. TACY
b) The lease required Sonora
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$250,000 to Voyager Restaurant Group, Inc. TAC { XIX.
c) Sonora failed to lend
action of RPI and Mr. Singh, they interfered with and caused
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not lend the $250,000 to Voyager Restaurant Group, Inc.
Sonora to
lease, specifically paragraph two, the Effective Date isthe date
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last signature. The lease was signed by the tenant on August 26, 2011 and by the landlord
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Date is August 31, 2011.
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on August 31, 2011. Therefore, the Effective
to be funded within sixty
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The funds to be lent by the landlord to the tenant were required
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the Effective Date. This deadline isclearly set forth in the lease agreement and cited
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by Plaintiff in paragraph XV of the TAC.
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Sixty (60) days after the Effective Date is October 30, 2011. As the landlord, SPI/SGC,
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Plaintiff was aware of the breach at that time. As such, based upon a two-
failed to fund the loan,
Plaintiff had no later than October 30, 2013 in which to file this action.
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solely for the purposes of this settlement conference statement that the TAC relates
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there have been no offers to settle or other settlement discussions between Plaintiff and
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8. LIMITS ON INSURANCE COVERAGE
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This case has not been through arbitration.
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and Mr. Singh are not aware of any special problems relating to settlement.
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SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE STATEMENT inthe above-referenced case, by placinga truecopy thereof,
enclosed in.asealed envelope, addressed and served as follows:
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17. Paul A. Warner, Esq. Brian S.Healy, Esq.
Clara Drive, Suite220 TIERNEY, WATSON & HEALY PC
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18 Roseville,CA 95661 575 Market Street,Suite3050
Telephone: (916) 996-3100 San Francisco, CA 94105
19 1) Facsimile: (916) 789-7557 Telephone: (415)974-1900
Email: pwarner@pacdining.com Facsimile: (415)974-6433
20 , Email: Brian@tw2law.com
Attorneyfor Plaintiff,Voyager Restaurant Group, Inc. :
21 Attorney for Defendant,
Jack Burstein,Esq. Denae Budde, Esq. —
Blvd Hildebrand, Alborg, Veiluva & Martin LLP
22 1730 Sonoma
Vallejo,CA 94590 2121 N. California Blvd, Suite 1010
23 |||Telephone: (707) 643-8405 Wainut Creek, CA 94596
Email: smithandburstein@comecast net
Attorney for Cross-Defendant, Parmar LLC
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Attorney for Defendant, Sonora Gasoline
under penaltyof perjury under thelaws of the Stgt of that
Californidl the-foregoing js
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Executed on February 28, 2018, atStockton, California.
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