Pimentel vs. Trider

Superior Court of the State of California County of Orange

DEPT C13 TENTATIVE RULINGS

The Honorable Nico A. Dourbetas

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Date: July 17, 2026

2 Pimentel vs. Trider

2024-01388480

1. Motion to Compel Answers to Form Interrogatories 2. Motion to Compel Answers to Form Interrogatories 3. Motion to Compel Answers to Form Interrogatories 4. Motion to Compel Answers to Special Interrogatories 5. Motion to Compel Production

Defendants Trider Corporation and Alan Trider’s motion to compel David Pimentel to serve verified responses to Special

Interrogatories, Set One, TC’s Form Interrogatories – General, Set One, TC’s Form Interrogatories – Employment, Set One, TC’s Requests for Production Of Documents, Set One, and Trider’s Form Interrogatories – Employment, Set One are all GRANTED.

Pimentel to provide code compliant, verified responses to the discovery, without objection, within 10 days.

Trider is awarded sanctions in the total amount of $1,380.00 against Pimentel, payable within 30 days.

Trider shall give notice.

5 Reddick vs. General Motors, LLC

2024-01439656 1. Demurrer to Complaint 2. Motion to Strike Complaint

Demurrer to Complaint

Defendant General Motors LLC’s unopposed demurrer to complaint is SUSTAINED with 10 days leave to amend.

The fifth cause of action for fraudulent inducement-concealment appears timebarred on its face. (See Code Civ. Proc., § 338, subd. (d).) The claim is based on fraud occurring at the time of the plaintiffs’ purchase of the vehicle on or about 5/28/16, and defendant’s alleged failure to disclose the “transmission defect.” (See Compl. ¶¶ 6, 47- 55.) The statute of limitations for fraud is three years, and the claim “is not deemed to have accrued until the discovery, by the aggrieved party, of the facts constitute the fraud.” (Code Civ.

Proc., § 338, subd. (d).) But California law recognizes a general, rebuttable presumption, that plaintiffs have knowledge of the wrongful cause of an injury (see Grisham v. Philip Morris U.S.A., Inc. (2007) 40 Cal.4th 623, 638), and the complaint alleges the subject “[d]efects and nonconformities to warranty manifested themselves within the applicable express warranty period, including but not limited to