TENTATIVE RULING

Calendar: 18

Date: 7/10/20

Case No: BC 714292 Trial Date: February 16, 2021

Case Name: Gevorkyan v. JMDiaz Inc., et al.

MOTION TO DEEM REQUESTS FOR ADMISSIONS ADMITTED

(CCP §2033.280(b), 2023.010 et seq)

Moving Party: Cross-Defendant Gary Gevorkyan

Responding Party: Cross-Complainant Southern California Regional Rail Authority

aka Metrolink

RELIEF REQUESTED:

Order deeming Requests for Admissions admitted

OPPOSITION:

No opposition

ANALYSIS:

Under CCP § 2033.280, a party who fails to serve a timely response to requests for admissions “waives any objection to the requests.” In addition, the requesting party may move for an order that “the truth of any matters specified in the requests be deemed admitted, as well as for a monetary sanction....” CCP Section 2033.280(b). The code specifies that “The court shall make this order, unless it finds that the party to whom the requests for admissions have been directed has served, before the hearing on the motion, a