Elite Financial Realty, LLC v. Pellequr LLC CA2/8

INTRODUCTION

The trial court ordered plaintiff and cross-defendant Elite Financial Realty, LLC, and cross-defendant Ron Mavaddat (collectively referred to as the “Lessors”) to pay $10,000 in sanctions, and it found seven contested issues in favor of defendant and cross-complainant Pellequr LLC1 and defendants Anna Margaryan, Dennis Colonello, and Steven Yoon Shin (defendants collectively referred to as Pellequr), after finding the Lessors failed to obey a prior order compelling them to provide further responses to Pellequr’s discovery requests. The Lessors appeal from the court’s sanctions order as well as from the judgment entered in Pellequr’s favor, after the court granted Pellequr’s motion for summary judgment concerning the Lessors’ complaint and motion for summary adjudication concerning Pellequr’s cross-complaint. The Lessors challenge only the merits of the court’s sanctions order, however. They do not challenge the merits of the court’s rulings on the summary judgment and summary adjudication motions. We have consolidated both appeals for purposes of oral argument and decision. We conclude the Lessors have failed to meet their burden on appeal to show the court abused…