LATAYA ROBINSON VS. CHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ET AL

Matter on the Law & Motion/Discovery Calendar for Tuesday, October 21, 2025, line 6 1 - DEFENDANTS CHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER, INC., HAMLIN HOTEL 2019, LP'S DEMURRER to COMPLAINT Continued for hearing to November 13, 2025.

Plaintiff Lataya Robinson obtained leave of the court to file a first amended complaint that was attached as Exhibit A to the Vannucci Declaration filed on July 11, 2025 ("Original FAC"). When Robinson filed it, the clerk rejected it nearly a month later because party names were listed as "et al." (Vannucci Decl., 10/8/25, Ex. C.) Robinson submitted a new version of a pleading styled as a first amended complaint ("Filed FAC") on October 3, 2025. (Id., para. 6.) The court clerk accepted it for filing and backdated it to September 29, 2025. (Id.)

The court's job is to construe the pleadings to do substantial justice among the parties. (See Code Civ. Proc., section 452.) That task is complicated here by the delay in processing the filing and by the coming trial, set for November 17, 2025. The court has carefully compared the Original FAC and the Filed FAC and it appears that Robinson's changes merely responded to the clerk's rejection notice, and the demurrers and motions to strike filed by the parties and directed at the Original FAC are equally applicable to the Filed FAC.

The court declines to strike the Filed FAC. It deems the demurrers and motions to strike filed on September 23, 2025, and September 29, 2025, as directed at the Filed FAC. It continues the demurrers and motions to strike to November 13, 2025, at 9 a.m. in Department 301. Robinson may file an opposition no later than nine court days in advance of the continued hearing date. Defendants may reply no later than five court days in advance of the continued hearing date.

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