PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Motion to Strike
......Defective Motions
6 Cards On This Topic:
  • Filing of motion to strike after D answered was not timely; however, motion treated as motion for SJ based on facts and decls outside pleadings.
  • Motion for ’partial summary judgment,’ not motion to strike, appropriate where responsive party’s claim not supported by facts sufficient to present triable issue.
  • Though brought as speaking motion to strike (affidavits w/facts outside pleadings), ct. treated same as SJ mot’n and reversed.
  • SJ, not motion to strike, is proper way to attack complaint as sham.
  • Summary judgment motions.
  • Motion to strike for failure to state cause of action treated as motion for judgment on pleadings, as strike motion technically improper when based on grounds reserved for demurrer.