YOU LIANG SONG VS. ARTHUR LIU ET AL

SF Superior Court - Law & Motion / Discovery Dept 301 - CGC21597131 - October 21, 2025 Hearing date: October 21, 2025 Case number: CGC21597131 Case title: YOU LIANG SONG VS. ARTHUR LIU ET AL Case Number: | | CGC21597131 | Case Title: | | YOU LIANG SONG VS. ARTHUR LIU ET AL | Court Date: | | 2025-10-21 09:00 AM | Calendar Matter: | | Notice Of Motion And Motion To Compel Plaintiff You Liang Song To Respond To Form Interrogatories, Set One, Requests For Production Of Documents, Set One, And Special Interrogatories, Set One, Requests For Sanctions, Declaration Of Arthur Liu In Support Of Motion To Compel, Memorandum Of Points And Authorites | Rulings: | | Matter on the Law & Motion/Discovery Calendar for Tuesday, October 21, 2025, line 5, DEFENDANT ARTHUR LIU'S Motion To Compel Plaintiff You Liang Song To Respond To Form Interrogatories, Set One, Requests For Production Of Documents, Set One, And Special Interrogatories, Set One, Requests For Sanctions, (tentative ruling part 1 of 2)

Defendant Arthur Liu moves to compel responses to his form interrogatories, set one; special interrogatories, set one; and requests for production of documents, set one. The court grants the motion and grants the request for sanctions in part.

Liu served the discovery at issue on July 17, 2025. (Liu Decl., para. 2, & Ex. 1.) Plaintiff You Liang Song served general objections to the special interrogatories on July 19, 2025. (Liu Decl., para. 2, & Ex. 2.) He did not otherwise respond.

Plaintiff's failure to timely respond to the form interrogatories and requests for production waives objections to those discovery requests. (See Code Civ. Proc., section 2030.290, subd. (a); id., section 2031.300, subd. (a).) Those objections asserted in his general objections to the special interrogatories are preserved, but he is still obliged to provide responses.

Plaintiff is ordered to provide complete and straightforward responses to all of the discovery requests within three weeks of notice of entry of this order. He may assert objections only as to the special interrogatories, and only those objections that he preserved with his general objections, but he must answer each special interrogatory or assert an individualized objection to each. He may not rely on general objections to the entire set. Plaintiff's answers must be verified under penalty of perjury.

Liu seeks sanctions. Sanctions are appropriate on a discovery motion where the objecting party does not act with substantial justification in the party's discovery compliance, even where he does not oppose the motion. (See Code Civ. Proc., section 2029.290, subd. (c); id., section 2031.300, subd. (c); Rules of Court, Rule 3.1348, subd. (a).) A party who represents himself is required to comply with the Code of Civil Procedure and the Rules of Court.