Aguila

I. INTRODUCTION

Henry Aguila and R. Gutierrez (plaintiffs)1 entered into a written agreement to

sublease commercial kitchen space from Industrial Catering, Inc. In 2016, plaintiffs filed

a civil action alleging various contract and tort claims against Industrial Catering, Inc.

(Industrial) and its individual owners, William L. Wade, II, and Elba Raquel Castaneda

(collectively Industrial defendants). Plaintiff also subsequently named as defendants the

owner of the property, the Vahe Karapetian Trust, and its trustee, Vahe Karapetian

(Karapetian defendants). The Industrial defendants filed a cross-complaint against

plaintiffs and named an additional cross-defendant, A. Gutierrez, as a party to the action.

At the time of the pre-trial conference, the trial court concluded that the parties

had failed to adequately prepare trial documents as required under Superior Court of

Riverside County, Local Rules, rule 3401 (Local Rule 3401). As a result, it issued an

order that all parties were to prepare documents in compliance with Local Rule 3401 by

the date set for trial and that noncompliance would be deemed a waiver of jury trial.

Henry Aguila is the only party to this…