Compliance Hearing – HEARING REQUIRED.
As nothing has been filed since the parties’ last appearance, class counsel shall be prepared to appear and apprise the court of the parties’ efforts to implement the settlement. Counsel is also to file a declaration to this effect within five days of the hearing.
CV-19-003585 – CORNEJO, BENJAMIN VS ADAMS, JAMES L – Plaintiffs’ Motion to Leave to Amend Complaint – GRANTED.
If the motion to amend is timely made and the granting of the motion will not prejudice the opposing party, it is error to refuse permission to amend and where the refusal also results in a party being deprived of the right to assert a meritorious cause of action or a meritorious defense, it is not only error but an abuse of discretion.” (Morgan v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County (1959) 172 Cal. App. 2d 527, 530.) In this case, the court declines to weigh or otherwise determine the evidence on a pleadings motion, or to consider the adequacy of discovery responses. Plaintiff