Zakarian

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff and appellant Razmik Zakarian appeals from postjudgment orders granting the motion of defendant and respondent Conrad A. Salumbides, Jr. to tax plaintiff’s costs and awarding sanctions against plaintiff or his counsel or both.1 Plaintiff contends the trial court erred in granting the motion to tax costs because his memorandum of costs after judgment was timely, and in it he did not request attorney fees and did not seek accrued interest as items of costs. Plaintiff also contends the trial court erred in granting defendant’s request for sanctions. We reverse and remand the matter to the trial court.

BACKGROUND

Plaintiff filed a lawsuit against defendant that culminated in a judgment entered in 1998. Commencing in 2008, plaintiff filed at least six memoranda of costs after judgment using Judicial Council form MC-012, the mandated form to be used to request costs after judgment. In response to each of plaintiff’s memorandum of costs after judgment, defendant filed a motion to tax costs. Each of defendant’s notices of motion to tax costs provided that the motion was made pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 1033.5,2 and each of the motions stated,…