PAUL HENRY VS. ERIC YOUNG ET AL

Set for Law and Motion/Discovery Calendar on Thursday, July 17, 2025, Line 9. 2 - DEFENDANT EMMANUEL KAMPOURIS' Motion To Compel Responses To Form Interrogatories, Set Two.

Defendant Emmanuel Kampouris's motion to compel response to form interrogatories, set two, is GRANTED.

Defendant served his second set of form interrogatories on May 5, 2025. Accounting for e-service, the deadline to respond fell on June 6, 2025. (CCP 2030.260; CCP 1010.6.) Plaintiff failed to timely provide any responses. Plaintiff belatedly served his original responses consisting of objections on June 16, 2025. By then, his objections were waived under CCP 2030.290. Plaintiff's waived objections did not amount to any response, and thus no meet and confer was required. (Leach v. Superior Court (1980) 111 Cal.App.3d 902, 905.) Where no responses are received, no meet and confer is required and no separate statement is required. Plaintiff must provide Code-compliant, objection free responses to Kampouris's form interrogatories, set two by July 30, 2025.

Plaintiff lacked substantial justification in opposing this motion. The court orders Plaintiff and his counsel, jointly and severally, to pay Kampouris $1,087.50 in sanctions by August 14, 2025.

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