Guzman

facts required to support her PAGA claim, such as the standard working hours of LMF’s employees and their scheduled breaks. She argues that this evidence was missing because LMF wrongly withheld it during discovery, but key portions of the evidence were within her own personal knowledge or accessible to her. Furthermore, although we agree that LMF abused aspects of the discovery process, the trial court did not abuse its discretion by concluding this misconduct did not warrant the severe remedies of terminating or issue sanctions, or in concluding that the failure to obtain relevant information was due in large part to Guzman’s

2 This award is not at issue in this appeal.

3 own lack of diligence in seeking discovery as opposed to LMF’s largely ineffective attempts to prevent such discovery.

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW

A. Pretrial Proceedings On October 19, 2016, Guzman filed a complaint alleging 10 causes of action against LMF.3 Guzman claimed that she had worked for LMF in food preparation and packaging from June 2003 to April 2016, that during the last four years of her employment she regularly worked 84.5 hours per week, that she was not paid at a higher rate for…