Motion granted. Further verified responses to be served within 20 days. Reasonable attorney fees awarded to moving party in the amount of $1,444.30 payable within 20 days jointly and severally against cross-defendant and their counsel.

Defendant/Cross-Complainant CitiMortgage, Inc. moves the court for an order compelling Cross- Defendant Pennymac Loan Services, LLC to provide further responses to RFA numbers 10 and 11 and for sanctions. CitiMortgage asserts that Pennymac’s responses to these requests merely provided meritless objections. The RFAs in question are as follows:

No. 10: Admit that YOU had a duty to notify Plaintiffs that CitiMortgage repurchased the LOAN.

RESPONSE: PLS objects to this Request on the ground that it: (i) is vague and ambiguous in that the term "repurchase" is used in the Master Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement to define a specific procedure to be followed by the parties, and the Request does not indicate whether "repurchase" is used in the contractual sens