DESIRAE FERIA VS. SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT ET AL

SF Superior Court - Law & Motion / Discovery Dept 301 - CGC24619887 - May 22, 2026 Hearing date: May 22, 2026 Case number: CGC24619887 Case title: DESIRAE FERIA VS. SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT ET AL Case Number: | | CGC24619887 | Case Title: | | DESIRAE FERIA VS. SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT ET AL | Court Date: | | 2026-05-22 09:00 AM | Calendar Matter: | | Notice Of Motion And Motion To Compel Defendant San Francisco Unified School District To Provide Further Responses, Without Objection, To Special Interrogatories (Set Seven) | Rulings: | | Matter on calendar for Friday, May 22, 2026, Line 5, PLAINTIFF DESIRAE FERIA's Motion To Compel Defendant San Francisco Unified School District To Provide Further Responses, Without Objection, To Special Interrogatories (Set Seven). 2 - Plaintiff Desirae Feria's motion to compel defendant San Francisco Unified School District to make further responses to her special interrogatories, set seven, and for monetary, issue, and evidentiary sanctions is denied.

Feria's motion lacks substantial justification and the court orders her to pay $855 in sanctions to SFUSD. The special interrogatories at issue here ask for the facts that counsel intends to use at trial to impeach various witnesses. For the reasons discussed in the court's companion order on Feria's motion to compel further responses to similar requests for production, this discovery seeks material protected by absolute work product production. In addition, Feria's motion was untimely noticed.

A motion must be noticed with sixteen court days plus time for service. (See Code Civ. Proc., sec. 1005, subd. (b); id., sec. 1010.6, subd. (a)(3)(B) [electronic service extends "[a]ny period of notice" by two days, in addition to extending "any . . . duty to . . . make any response"].) In addition, Feria's motion seeks issue and evidentiary sanctions without showing that SFUSD has failed to comply with a discovery order. Ordinarily, "the discovery statutes evince an incremental approach to discovery sanctions . . . ." (Creed-21 v.

City of Wildomar (2017) 18 Cal.App.5th 690, 701.) It is generally unwarranted for a court to impose an issue or evidentiary sanction as first recourse. Feria's discovery position lacks substantial justification. (See Code Civ. Proc., sec. 2030.300, subd. (d).) The court concludes that $855 is a reasonable sanction amount incurred by SFUSD in opposing this motion. Feria shall pay $855 in sanctions to SFUSD. For the 9:00 a.m. calendar, all attorneys and parties may appear in Department 301 remotely or in person.

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