Glenda Gonzalez v. Hospice Source LLC, et al.

(Stanley Mosk Courthouse: Dept. 513) August 21, 2026 DEPARTMENT 513 LAW AND MOTION RULINGS

Court of California County of Los Angeles - Central District Department 513 Glenda Gonzalez; Plaintiffs, vs. Hospice Source LLC, et al., Defendants. | Case No.: |

| | | Hearing Date: | August 21, 2026 | | | Time: | 10:00 a.m. | | | [Tentative] Order RE: Motion to Compel Responses | MOVING PARTY: Plaintiff Glenda Gonzalez RESPONDING PARTY: No response Motion to Compel

Responses The court considered the moving papers filed in connection with this motion. No opposition was filed. DISCUSSION Plaintiff Glenda Gonzalez ("Plaintiff") moves the court for an order compelling defendant Transition Capital Partners, LLC ("Defendant") to respond to form interrogatories, special interrogatories, requests for production, and requests for admissions, and awarding sanctions for Plaintiff and against Defendant in the amount of $987.25. First, the Code of Civil Procedure does not authorize a motion to compel responses to requests for admissions.

The proper motion where a party fails to respond to requests for admissions is a motion for an order that the truth of matters specified in the requests be deemed admitted, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 2033.280, subdivision (b). Second, the court finds that Plaintiff's motion is an improper omnibus motion which combines what should have been filed as three separate motions to compel responses to discovery requests and a motion to deem the truth of matters stated in requests for admission.

Combining discovery motions into one motion allows the moving party to avoid paying the required filing fees for each motion. Filing fees are jurisdictional and it is mandatory for court clerks to demand and receive them. (Duran v. St. Luke's Hospital (2003) 114 Cal.App.4th 457, 460.) Plaintiffs combined four separate motions into a single motion and paid a single filing fee for what should have been four separate motions. In addition, combining multiple motions into one motion is not in furtherance of judicial efficiency and economy, and circumvents the Court Reservation System which has been implemented to limit the number and type of motions that can be noticed for hearing each day.

The court therefore exercises its discretion to deny Plaintiff's motion without prejudice to filing separate motions to compel responses or a motion for an order that the truth of matters specified in requests for admission be deemed admitted which comply with the court's fee schedule and Court Reservation System. The court denies Plaintiff's request for sanctions. ORDER The court DENIES plaintiff Glenda Gonzalez's motion to compel discovery responses. The court orders plaintiff Glenda Gonzalez to give notice of this ruling.

IT IS SO ORDERED. DATED: August 21, 2026