LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT – SOUTHWEST DISTRICT

Honorable Gary Y. Tanaka

Department B

Friday, June 26, 2020

Calendar No. 8

PROCEEDINGS

Hitachi Capital America Corp. v. OT Trucklines, et al.

19TRCV00834

Hitachi Capital America Corp.’s Application for Right to Attach Order and for Issuance of Writ of Attachment as to OT Trucklines

Hitachi Capital America Corp.’s Application for Right to Attach Order and for Issuance of Writ of Attachment as to Tom Pongil Kim

TENTATIVE RULING

Hitachi Capital America Corp.’s Applications for Right to Attach Order and for Issuance of Writs of Attachment are granted.

The attachment remedy allows commercial creditors holding unsecured claims or claims secured only by personal property to create judicial liens on a defendant’s property before final adjudication of the claims sued upon. See Kemp Bros. Const., Inc. v. Titan Elec. Corp. (2007) 146 Cal.App.4th 1474, 1476.

The requirements authorizing attachment are the following: (1) the claim must be