Currently before the Court is a motion by Jed Hazeltine (“Hazeltine”) to deem requests for admissions (“RFAs”) served on Carl J. Goedinghaus (“Petitioner”) admitted, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 2033.280.
On February 19, 2020, Hazeltine served by mail a first set of RFAs on Petitioner. Petitioner’s responses were due on March 25, 2020. The first set of RFAs included 77 requests: 47 of which inquired into the truth of certain factual matters and 30 of which sought admissions regarding the genuineness of certain documents. On March 18, 2020, Hazeltine served by mail a second set for RFAs on Petitioner. Petitioner’s responses were due on April 22, 2020. The second set of RFAs contained a single request seeking admission of the genuineness of a document that had been inadvertently omitted from the first set of RFAs.
After receiving no responses, counsel for Hazeltine wrote Petitioner a letter, on April 24, 2020, (sent via email) requesting responses without objections to the