Case Number:
19STCV02043
Hearing Date:
March 05, 2021
Dept:
NCB


Superior Court of California

County of Los Angeles

North Central District

Department B







valerie flores,
an incompetent person, by and through her Guardian ad Litem, NELLY O. CABALLERO,




Plaintiff,


v.



city of burbank,





Defendant.








Case No.: 19STCV02043




Hearing Date:

March 5, 2021




[
TENTATIVE] order RE:

motion for terminating, issue, and/or evidentiary sanctions against city of burbank for willful spoliation of evidence






BACKGROUND

A.

Allegations

Plaintiff Valerie Flores (“Plaintiff”) alleges that she was a passenger of a vehicle driving west on Olive Avenue near Lakeside Drive in Burbank when an approximately 85-foot-tall palm tree suddenly fell over and crashed through the top of the vehicle and crushed Plaintiff, causing her to suffer severe i