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24CV023959: BURKE, et al. vs PACIFIC MODERN HOMES, INC., et al. 02/17/2026 Hearing on Motion to Compel Admissions in Department 53
Tentative Ruling
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24CV023959: BURKE, et al. vs PACIFIC MODERN HOMES, INC., et al. 02/17/2026 Hearing on Motion to Compel Admissions in Department 53
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TENTATIVE RULING:
Plaintiff Griffin Burkes (Plaintiff) motion for an order compelling Defendant Pacific Modern Homes, Inc. (PMHI) to provide further responses to his Requests for Admission, set one (RFAs) is GRANTED IN PART, as follows.
This motion was continued from January 13, 2026, to allow the parties to fully meet and confer about the subject discovery.
The parties conducted additional meet and confer efforts from January 12, 2026, through January 27, 2026, and filed a joint declaration detailing their meet and confer efforts on February 2, 2026. Pertinent to this motion, the parties state that they have reached the following agreement as to PMHIs responses to the subject RFAs:
9. The parties have reached agreement on certain Requests for Admissions. Plaintiff would like this reflected in the Order:
10. RFA Nos. 4, 7, 12, 31, and 32: PMHI has agreed to withdraw its objections to these Requests for Admission and provide further substantive responses admitting or denying the matters set forth therein.
11. RFA No. 11: The parties have agreed to modify this Request for Admission. PMHI will provide a response to RFA 11 as amended to ask whether PMHI knew at the time of the relevant contract that Ludwick was a suspended Nevada Corporation. PMHI has committed to re- review its records and make further inquiry of its employees regarding this matter. To the extent PMHI cannot, after reasonable investigation, admit or deny this fact, Plaintiff has agreed to accept such response.
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO
24CV023959: BURKE, et al. vs PACIFIC MODERN HOMES, INC., et al. 02/17/2026 Hearing on Motion to Compel Admissions in Department 53
12. Accompanying Information: PMHI will provide information responsive to Form Interrogatory 17.1 for each of the RFAs identified above.
(Joint Decl. re Meet & Confer Efforts ¶¶ 9-12.)
In light of the above, the motion is GRANTED IN PART insofar as PMHI shall respond as agreed by the parties during their meet-and-confer sessions and as memorialized by their joint statement. As to item 12, while the parties included this item in the section of their statement entitled, Requests for Admission, the present motion to compel in itself relates only to the requests for admissions and not the accompanying and separately propounded Form Interrogatory 17.1 pertaining to denials of RFAs. Nonetheless, the Court accepts the parties representation as a stipulation that PMHI will also provide a supplemental response to the accompanying Form Interrogatory 17.1.
Under the circumstances, the parties respective requests for monetary sanctions are denied.
The minute order is effective immediately. No formal order pursuant to California Rules of Court, rule 3.1312 or further notice is required.