Hart

□□ DEC 2019 3 : sy FHEEH STR OF Sauna

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

. _ SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Il 12 || HOYT HART, Case No.: 3:16-cv-01460-BEN-MDD Plaintiff ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF'S 14 || v. MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL □ |] SCOTT R. LARSON, et al., PDoes 147] mo Defendants. : Pending before the Court is Plaintiff Hoyt Hart’s motion for anew trial. [Doc. 147.] 19 || The motion is DENIED. I. BACKGROUND 21: This action arose out of an attorneys’ fees dispute between Plaintiff Hoyt Hart and ||Defendants Scott Larson and Scott Larson, P.C.! In April 2013, Jo Ann Storm suffered a 23 || brain injury while visiting the Welk Resort in Cathedral City, California. Subsequently, 24 || the Storms hired their friend and neighbor, Colorado attorney Larson, to sue Welk Resort 25° and its insurer. In August 2014, Larson invited Hoyt Hart…