Gustavo Jimenez vs American Honda Motor Company, Inc

SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Department 12 Honorable Nahal Iravani-Sani, Presiding Courtroom Clerk, Ryan Nguyen 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 Telephone: (408) 882-2230

DATE: 07/22/2026 TIME: 9:00 A.M. and 9:01 A.M.

LINES 3-5 24CV445865 Gustavo Jimenez Line 3: Defendant’s Motion to Compel Responses to Form and vs American Special Interrogatories; Honda Motor Line 4: Motion to Compel Production of Documents Company, Inc Line 5: Motion to Deems Facts Admitted.

Notice is proper. The Court has received no opposition from Plaintiff. “[T]he failure to file an opposition creates an inference that the motion is meritorious.” (Sexton v. Superior Court (1997) 58 Cal.App.4th 1403, 1410.)

Good Cause Appearing, Defendant’s motion to compel responses for form and special interrogatories and motion to compel productions of documents are GRANTED.

Defendant has further demonstrated that Requests for Admissions are properly served, the time to respond has expired, and no response has been served by Plaintiff.

Good cause appearing, Defendant’s Motion to Deem Facts Admitted pursuant to CCP 2033.280(b) is GRANTED. The truth of all specified facts in the Request for Admissions, Set One, propounded by Defendant on Plaintiff on July 22,2025 shall be deemed admitted.

Motion for Sanctions is GRANTED, in part, and lowered to $1,350.00 in attorney’s fees at a rate of $450 for 3 hours on the three motions, and $180.00 in filing fees for a total of $1,530.00 payable by Plaintiff to Defendant within 30 days of this order.

Defendant to prepare the final order that repeats the admissions to be admitted verbatim, accompanied by the necessary Form EFS-020, within 7 days of the date of the hearing.