MOTION TO COMPEL DEFENDANT HUGO DA SILVA TO ATTEND DEPOSITION AND PRODUCE DOCUMENTS PURSUANT TO CCP SEC. 2025.450 AND REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS BY IMMIGRANT RIGHTS DEFENSE COUNCIL, LLC
1. CASE # CASE NAME HEARING NAME MOTION TO COMPEL DEFENDANT BRIAN SULLIVAN'S RESPONSES TO FORM INTERROGATORIES, SET ONE CVPS2304017 MIRAMORE, LLC VS TYLER BY AC PALM DESERT CORPORATION, JOHN WHITE, AC PALM DESERT CORPORATION Tentative Ruling: Hearing continued per joint declaration filed June 8, 2026. New hearing date of July 21, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. in Department PS2. Counsel are ordered to meet and confer by telephone, video conference, or in person. The parties are further ordered to prepare a joint separate statement for any outstanding issues, which must be filed five court days before the new hearing date.
2. CASE # CASE NAME HEARING NAME MOTION TO COMPEL DEFENDANT IMMIGRANT RIGHTS HUGO DA SILVA TO ATTEND DEFENSE COUNCIL, LLC., DEPOSITION AND PRODUCE CVPS2305435 A CALIFORNIA LIMITED DOCUMENTS PURSUANT TO CCP LIABILITY COMPANY VS SEC. 2025.450 AND REQUEST FOR DA SILVA SANCTIONS BY IMMIGRANT RIGHTS DEFENSE COUNCIL, LLC Tentative Ruling: Hearing continued to Friday June 12, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. in Department PS2 to be addressed with scheduled trial date of June 12, 2026.
3. CASE # CASE NAME HEARING NAME DEMURRER ON 1ST AMENDED REDSTAR VS ABOVE ALL CVPS2506804 COMPLAINT OF REDSTAR BY DS SERVICES STRATEGIES LLC Tentative Ruling: Sustained.
Plaintiff granted leave for one additional opportunity to file a 2nd Amended Complaint within 10 days of this order becoming final.
Moving party to provide notice pursuant to CCP 1019.5.
Plaintiff Redstar alleges it entered into a contract with co-defendants Above All Services, dba “BT Construction Co.” and its principal Brett Tobin to perform “construction work” on commercial property that moving party, defendant DS Strategies LLC (“DS Strategies”), owns in Palm Desert California. (First Amended Complaint (“FAC”), ¶¶ 12, 18-19.) DS Strategies in fact hired BT Construction as the general contractor on the build, and BT Construction hired Plaintiff as a subcontractor. (See generally, FAC, ¶¶ 12, 19.) In its breach of contract claim, pled only as to BT Construction and Mr. Tobin, Redstar claims BT Construction paid only $250,000 of the $378,000 contract price, leaving $128,000 due and owing. (FAC, ¶ 28)
A Complaint was filed on September 15, 2025 and a FAC on March 18, 2026, alleging causes of action for: (1) breach of contract; (2) account stated; (3) quantum meruit; (4) prompt payment statute; (5) foreclosure on mechanic’s lien; and (6) unjust enrichment.
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