GHANI vs STANDARD LAKESIDE I, LP, et al.

24CV085509: GHANI vs STANDARD LAKESIDE I, LP, et al. 08/20/2026 Hearing on Motion for Reconsideration filed by STANDARD LAKESIDE I, LP (Defendant) + CRS# 634563940657 in Department 23

Tentative Ruling - 08/17/2026 Ruben Sundeen

The Motion for Reconsideration filed by STANDARD LAKESIDE GP LLC, STANDARD LAKESIDE I, LP, APARTMENT MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS, LLC, STANDARD PROPERTY COMPANY INC. on 06/24/2026 is Denied.

Defendants Standard Lakeside I, LP and Apartment Management Consultants, LLC (collectively, “Defendants”) move for reconsideration of the order dated 6/23/2026 in which the Court granted Plaintiff’s ex parte application to continue Defendants’ motion for summary judgment from 7/23/2026 to 10/29/2026. Defendants ask the Court to vacate the 6/23/2026 order and either restore the 7/23/2026 hearing date or re-set the matter as a noticed motion.

A motion for reconsideration requires the moving party to “state by affidavit ... what new or different facts, circumstances, or law are claimed to be shown.”(Code Civ. Proc. (“CCP”) § 1008(a).)“The burden under section 1008 is comparable to that of a party seeking a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence: the information must be such that the moving party could not, with reasonable diligence, have discovered or produced it at the trial.”(New York Times Co. v. Superior Court(2005) 135 Cal.App.4th 206, 212-213.)The Court also has the authority“toreconsider its own prior interim ordersso it may correct its own errors.” (Le Francois v. Goel (2005) 35 Cal.4th 1094, 1107, emphasis added.) “If a court believes one of its prior interim orders was erroneous, it should be able to correct that error no matter how it came to acquire that belief.” (Id. at 1108.)

The motion for reconsideration is DENIED. Defendants have not identified any new or different facts, circumstances, or law in support of this motion. CCP section 437c(h) authorizes courts to continue motions for summary judgment on an ex parte basis. In accordance with section 437c(h), the Court considered Plaintiff’s ex parte request to continue the MSJ, including the declaration of counsel, as well as Defendants’ filings in opposition to the request, and found good cause to continue the summary judgment motion.

Finally, the Court notes that many of Plaintiff’s pending discovery motions are seeking to compel a response, not further responses. A good faith response, even to onerous discovery demands, likely would have narrowed the issues thereby requiring the applicant to be more specific with regard to the discovery needed.

For the reasons stated above, the Court declines to reconsider its order and allow further briefing on this matter. The motion is DENIED.

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