MICHELLE FULLER VS. FARMERS INSURANCE COMPANY ET AL

Set for Law and Motion/Discovery Calendar on Friday, July 31, 2026, Line 3.

1 - Plaintiff Michelle Fuller's Motion To Compel Compliance With Deposition Subpoenas For Production Of Business Records is DENIED.

Plaintiff's motion is denied on several independent grounds. First, Plaintiff's motion is impermissibly stacked. If the motion were not denied on other grounds, the court would order it off calendar. Second, Plaintiff fails to identify any legal authority-statutory or otherwise-supporting her motion or request for relief. Third, Plaintiff's memorandum does not contain a single record citation or reference. The court declines to search through the record on this motion for evidence that might support Plaintiff's contentions.

Fourth, Plaintiff failed to provide a separate statement. (See Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.1345.) Plaintiff's failure is not excused. The motion is largely unintelligible. The motion's intelligibility may have been improved had Plaintiff provided a separate statement, but she declined to do so. Fifth, Plaintiff failed to demonstrate the discovery requests at issue are reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence. (See Code of Civil Procedure section 2017.010.) Sixth, any marginal relevance is substantially outweighed by the overbreadth of the requests and the undue burden imposed upon the third parties.

Further, the record shows that the requests burden third party privacy interests and Plaintiff has not demonstrated her need or interest in the materials outweighs those privacy interests.

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