ISAAK, LIAM vs GRIMMWAY ENTERPRISES INC

heard with the related probate discovery motion on calendar that day. The following are the tentative rulings for cases calendared before Judge Clifford Tong in Department 23:

CV-22-001828 - LONGORIA, OSCAR vs CITY OF MODESTO - Defendant's Motion to Compel Lupe Longoria to Submit an IME - DROPPED. Defendant has failed to file or serve the moving papers.

CV-25-003899 - ISAAK, LIAM vs GRIMMWAY ENTERPRISES INC - a) Plaintiff's Motion to Compel Grimmway Enterprises, Inc.'s Further Responses to Plaintiff's Set One Special Interrogatories - CONTINUED, on the Court's own motion, to October 20, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. in Department 23; b) Plaintiff Grimmway Enterprises, Inc.'s Motion to Compel Further Responses to Plaintiff's Set One Requests for Production of Documents - CONTINUED, on the Court's own motion, to October 20, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. in Department 23.

a-b) These matters are CONTINUED, on the Court's own motion, to October 20, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. in Department 23. The Court finds the parties' meet-and-confer efforts to be insufficient under the circumstances presented herein. Specifically, the Court notes the absence of any further meet-and-confer efforts after Defendant's service of further responses to the subject discovery. Further, the Court believes that the potential exists for the parties to informally resolve or substantially narrow the subject issues if genuine efforts to meet and confer are undertaken in good faith.

Therefore, the hearing is continued, as above, for that purpose, and the parties are ordered to meet and confer in person or by online video conference to discuss the issues herein. The parties are further ordered to submit a Joint Status Statement by October 9, 2026, describing their efforts to meet-and-confer and any resolution or narrowing of the issues they were able to achieve. The Court believes the issues herein are amenable to informal resolution. Toward that end, the parties are reminded that discovery is intended to be self-executing, and good faith communication should involve serious efforts at informal negotiation and resolution, not mere bickering between counsel. (See, e.g., Townsend v.

Superior Court (EMC Mortgage Co.) (1998) 61 Cal.App.4th 1431; Obregon v. Superior Court (Cimm's, Inc.) (1998) 67 Cal.App.4th 424.) Therefore, the Court expects the parties to make genuine efforts to informally resolve their differences with due civility to one another and to demonstrate their best efforts in this regard.

CV-25-008202 - RUIZ, VICTORIA REYNA MENDOZA vs MERLIN PLASTICS CALIFORNIA INC - Defendants and Cross-Complainants Merlin Plastics California, Inc. and Peninsula Plastics Recycling, Inc.'s Motion for Good Faith Settlement - DENIED, without prejudice. The Court notes that Code Civ. Proc. Sec. 877.6(b) contemplates the submission of evidentiary support for the information asserted in the instant motion, and moving defendants have failed to submit a supporting declaration or other evidence herein.

The following are the tentative rulings for cases calendared before Judge David Hood in Department 24:

CV-23-004243 - SOLIZ, ANGEL vs DUST BOWL BREWING CO LLC - Compliance Hearing - CONTINUED to October 27, 2026, at 8:30 am in Department 24. The Court has reviewed the declaration of Nicole Bench, Case Manager for ILYM Group, Inc., concerning administration of the class action settlement. The declaration establishes that settlement funds have been distributed pursuant to the Court's Final Approval Order and Judgment entered February 3, 2026. The declaration further establishes that settlement checks were issued on March 25, 2026, and that settlement class members have until September 21, 2026, to negotiate those checks.

As of August 11, 2026, 152 checks totaling $61,637.09 remained outstanding. Under the Final Approval Order and Judgment, any funds represented by uncashed checks are to be distributed to the Court-approved cy pres recipient, Jessica's House. The Court finds that a final accounting cannot yet be completed because the check-cashing period has not expired. The amount of residual funds, if any, remains unknown, and no cy pres distribution has yet occurred. Good cause therefore exists to continue the compliance hearing.

Accordingly: 1. The final accounting hearing is CONTINUED to October 27, 2026, at 8:30 am in Department 24.