The moving party brought a motion to consolidate the responding party's civil proceeding for defamation and malicious prosecution with their ongoing family law proceeding, and to strike the responding party's pleadings for non-compliance with multiple court orders.
The court granted the consolidation to avoid inconsistent findings and duplicate legal fees.
The court also struck the responding party's pleadings due to her blatant disregard for twelve previous court orders, her inappropriate conduct in stealing the moving party's private emails, and her failure to attend the motion hearing.
The matter was directed to proceed to an uncontested trial, and the moving party was awarded full indemnity costs.
