Uwadiale

DISCUSSION

Section 575.2 authorizes trial “courts to provide by local rule for sanctions, including monetary sanctions in the form of reasonable attorney fees, for failure to comply with any of the requirements of properly promulgated local rules.” (Vidrio v. Hernandez (2009) 172 Cal.App.4th 1443, 1455; see also Rietveld v. Rosebud Storage Partners (2004) 121 Cal.App.4th 250, 255 (Rietveld).) As we have stated, former local rule 5 required trial counsel and clients to attend a pretrial issue conference and to file various documents before that conference. Pursuant to former local rule 25, a “violation of these rules may result in sanctions and penalties including but not limited to . . . actual expenses and counsel fees . . . arising as a result of such violation payable to opposing counsel.” We review the order imposing “monetary sanctions under the deferential abuse of discretion standard.” (Martorana v. Marlin & Saltzman (2009) 175 Cal.App.4th 685, 698.) Anyia contends section 575.2 does not authorize monetary sanctions. This argument is foreclosed by Rietveld, where the court rejected the same argument and upheld an award of monetary sanctions pursuant to section 575.2 and…