ANASTASIIA LISINETCKAIA VS. NUVOLUM, INC., A CORPORATION ET AL

Set for Law and Motion/Discovery Calendar on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, Line 8. 6 - Plaintiff Anastasiia Lisinetckaia's Motion To Compel Further Responses Re Defendant John Putney's Further Responses To Plaintiffs Form Interrogatories - General (Set 1) And Request For Monetary Sanctions is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART.

Plaintiff's motion is based on Code of Civil Procedure sections 2030.300. "On receipt of a response to interrogatories, the propounding party may move for an order compelling a further response if the propounding party deems that any of the following apply: (1) An answer to a particular interrogatory is evasive or incomplete. (2) An exercise of the option to produce documents under Section 2030.230 is unwarranted or the required specification of those documents is inadequate. (3) An objection to an interrogatory is without merit or too general." (Code of Civil Procedure section 2030.300(a).)

Plaintiff demonstrated adequate efforts to meet and confer. (See Code of Civil Procedure section 2016.040.) The discovery at issue appears reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence. (See Code of Civil Procedure Section 2017.010.) Plaintiff demonstrated the responses identified below were incomplete and/or evasive. As to the responses identified below, Defendant John Putney did not demonstrate the merit of any objection. The objections, thus, are overruled.

Defendant Putney to provide further responses to Plaintiff's Form Interrogatories - General, Set One Nos. 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 13.1, 13.2 and 14.1.

The court does not find that Defendant or its counsel acted with substantial justification in connection with this discovery and motion. Defendant John Putney and his counsel Miles Archer Woodlief, jointly and severally, shall pay $3.460 to Plaintiff Anastasiia Lisinetckaia as sanctions, payment no later than 20 court days from notice of this order. (Code of Civil Procedure sections 2023.010, 2023.030, 2031.310(h), 2031.320(d).)

To the extent Petitioners seek additional or different relief, the motion is denied.

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