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    Waived Costs & Fees: How can prevailing plaintiff require that defendant pay to court

    I give up; I want the payments for initially waived costs and fees to be made by defendants to the court, not to me. Moreover, regarding certain various replies, I did not visit this site to be insulted with presumptuous and gratuitous innuendos and strawman-type fallacious reasoning and...
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    Waived Costs & Fees: How can prevailing plaintiff require that defendant pay to court

    Plaintiff/Judgment Creditor's "Apology:" I hardly regard the outcome of my civil suit as being a hollow or Pyrrhic victory. Nor do I regard the various challenges and temporary setbacks in pursuit thereof (which I persevered and overcame) as having been in vain. Both the former and the latter...
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    Waived Costs & Fees: How can prevailing plaintiff require that defendant pay to court

    I realized that, generally speaking. However, I read the "shall" as meaning "must," and not "may:" "(b) (1) If a party whose trial court fees and costs were initially waived is a prevailing party within the meaning of Section 1032 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the judgment or dismissal...
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    Waived Costs & Fees: How can prevailing plaintiff require that defendant pay to court

    In my unlimited jurisdiction civil case, the Los Angeles Municipal Court very recently awarded me a monetary (default) judgment against defendants, both jointly and severally. However, the ruling did not perfunctorily include an order that defendants pay to the court my waived fees and costs...
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    Discovery docs still valid if propounded on original UD complaint, but after FAC filed?

    It is rather curious that one takes the time to post such presumptuous ad hominem attacks along with baseless and unwarranted castigation. Regardless. for what it is worth, in the past proceedings to which you refer, I ultimately prevailed, not on procedural grounds, but on the merits.
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    Discovery docs still valid if propounded on original UD complaint, but after FAC filed?

    I responded to the original unlawful detainer complaint by filing a demurrer. I served plaintiff with demurrer and discovery docs (i.e. DPDs, RFAs and ROGs). Later, that same day, I reviewed the case file and discovered that plaintiff had filed an amended complaint, which I had never received...
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    Retaliatory Eviction Retaliatory eviction claim: Better to use statutory or common law?

    Hi, I want to know (1) which is better in my case and (2) if I use both options, must I separate them into two causes of action or may I frame both within a single claim for relief. I rented furnished accommodations in the upper dwelling unit of a duplex; the tenancy was under an oral...
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    Unlawful Eviction Does fixed-term rental convert to month-to-month once expired?

    In March, I agreed to rent a room in boarding house on a month-to-month basis. I made such arrangements with the landlord's agent. The agent told me that since the room would not be ready until the middle of the month, that he would pro-rate monthly rent of $700.00. So, I prepaid $350.00 rent. I...
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    Seek to file moton to compel further respones to ROGs and DPDs: Cut-off date?

    Hi, I am a defendant in a UD case. My trial is set for May 20. I served plaintiff with DPDs and ROGs on April 29. On May 1, plaintiff served me with inadequate responses. I spoke with plaintiff’s attorney on May 6 to arrange a meet-and-confer. He told me to send email of my specific concerns...
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    Eviction Notice Landlord misspelled my name in UD summons and complaint

    3-day notice versus 3-day notice to pay rent or quit? Once again, please permit me to clarify a few things, in advance: I do not owe any past-due rent. The landlord has never served me with a 3-day notice to pay or quit. The landlord does not state within the complaint any amount of past-due...
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    Eviction Notice Landlord misspelled my name in UD summons and complaint

    Oops, forgive me for not having responded in a timely matter to your question. For the sake of clarification and reiteration here: I had indicated in my initial post, that I did not owe any rent. No, I do not not have a "history of nuisances notices against me."
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    Eviction Notice Landlord misspelled my name in UD summons and complaint

    Hi, Yes, I shall be prepared to file an answer, at some point. However, I plan to first file a demurrer to the complaint. This is due to its inherently blatant contradictions and vagueness. So, ultimately, I seek to be in a much better position to file a comprehensive and suitable response...
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    Eviction Notice Landlord misspelled my name in UD summons and complaint

    Hi, In Los Angeles, my landlord is trying to wrongfully evict me from my apartment. I am wondering if he made fatal errors in the summons and complaint with which he had served upon me. I occupy the premises pursuant to an oral month-to-month rental agreement. A. If correct names matter...
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    Eviction: Motion to reconsider Motion to vacate judgment Motion for relief from judg

    Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance reads: 1. A landlord cannot demand or collect rent until such time as it registers a tenant’s rental unit. 2. A tenant may withhold any rents, otherwise due, until such time a landlord registered rental unit. 3. In an unlawful detainer action, a...
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    Plaintiff's Motion to Deem Requests for Admissions Admitted granted: [my recourse?]

    I live in Los Angeles. I am a defendant in an unlawful detainer case. I was served with a Notice of Motion to Deem Requests for Admissions Admitted and for Monetary Sanctions (pursuant to C.C.P. Section 2033.280. It indicated that I should appear for the matter to be heard at 9:15 AM on...
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