MOVING PARTY: Defendant Wasserman, Comden, & Casselman, LLP

OPPOSITION: Plaintiff Lydia Harris

Plaintiff Lydia Harris, through her current counsel Dermot Givens have filed several motions attempting to set aside or vacate a $107 million judgment issued in Harris’ favor and against Marion Knight and Death Row Records.

In September 2019, the Court erroneously granted Harris’ motion to set aside the default, then in March 2020, the Court denied Harris’ motion for reconsideration of its December 2019 ruling, which had corrected the September ruling.

On September 9, 2020, the Court again denied Givens’ motion to set aside. On the same day, Defendant Wasserman, Comden & Casselman, LLC (“WCC”) filed this motion requesting that Givens be ordered to pay a monetary sanction of $6,593.00.

Standard: Code of Civil Procedure section 128.7(b) states that for every pleading an attorney must certify that a pleading:

“(1) It is not being presented primarily for an improper purpose, such as to hara