Tentative Ruling on Motion for Leave to Withdraw

Mitskevych v. Northcutt, Case No. 2017-14603

Trial Started: August 6, 2018, Dept. 72

Partial non-suit granted: August 8, 2018

Mistrial declared: August 13, 2018

New trial date: December 14, 2018

Motion hearing: Nov. 2, 2018, 1:30 p.m., Dept. 72

1. Overview and Procedural Posture.

This case arises out of the parties' extremely brief marriage, which was formalized in Nevada and annulled in Texas. The complaint for negligence, battery, defamation, invasion of privacy/public disclosure of private facts and fraud was filed April 21, 2017. ROA 1.

The court incorporates the minutes for August 8, 2018 (ROA 269) for a more complete recitation of the rather tortured procedural history of the case. On that day, the court denied in part and granted in part defendant's motion for a nonsuit. Evidence continued the following day, Thursday, August 9, with the defense case under way. ROA 286. The trial was scheduled to resume Monday, August 13,