Hanna

Security Pacific Business Credit, Inc., now known as BankAmerica Business Credit, Inc., but which for the sake of continuity will be referred to herein as “Security,” appeals an order imposing a $1,500 discovery sanction. The court imposed the sanction after Security opposed a motion to compel discovery without substantial justification for doing so. (Code Civ. Proc., § 2023, subd. (a)(8).) We conclude Security has appealed from a nonappealable order and therefore dismiss.

Facts

Milad I. Hanna (Hanna) filed the underlying wrongful termination action against Security and other defendants in February of 1989. The superior court set the trial date for January 29, 1990, and set January 9, 1990, as the discovery cutoff date. Thereafter, Security moved for summary judgment, which the trial court granted in December of 1989. Hanna appealed the summary judgment, and, in an opinion filed on May 31, 1991, this division reversed the summary judgment in part and remanded the case to the superior court for further proceedings.

Following remand, the parties resumed litigating the case, and both exchanged discovery requests and interrogatories. However, neither party formally moved…