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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

PLANTRONICS, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

BLUEANT WIRELESS PTY., LTD., ET AL., 

Defendants. 

PLANTRONICS, INC., 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

C2 WIRELESS AND ACCESSORIES, LLC, 

Defendant. 

Case No. 14-cv-04619-YGR 

Case No. 14-cv-04621-YGR 

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE SANCTIONS

TO DAVID C. BOHRER: You are HEREBY ORDERED TO SHOW CAUSE why you should not 

be sanctioned for your failure to appear at the case management conference (“CMC”) for the 

above-captioned related actions on January 26, 2015 at 4:30 p.m.

On January 6, 2015, the Court scheduled an initial CMC for January 26, 2015 at 2 p.m. 

Apparently as of that date, Mr. Bohrer, counsel for plaintiff, was aware of a conflict—namely, a 

deposition he was scheduled to defend in an unrelated matter and which apparently could not be 

moved. (Declaration of David C. Bohrer in Support of Plaintiff’s Request for Telephonic 

Appearance (“Bohrer Dec.”) at ¶ 6.) However, Mr. Bohrer did not notify the Court of this conflict 

in a timely fashion. The parties filed their joint case management statements on January 20, 2015. 

Finally, on January 22, 2015—on the Thursday before Monday’s CMC—the Bohrer Dec. was 

filed on both dockets in connection with the CMC. As this Court noted in denying the “request,” 

no formal request for telephonic appearance was filed in connection with the declaration, the 

request was untimely, and Mr. Bohrer did not provide sufficient detail to justify the request. 

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Nevertheless, to accommodate Mr. Bohrer, the Court rescheduled the CMC to 4:30 p.m. on the 

same day and notified Mr. Bohrer that it was considering issuing an order to show cause regarding 

possible sanctions. 

Mr. Bohrer did not further communicate with the Court and did not appear at the CMC. 

Instead, his partner Patrick Lamb—who is not admitted to practice before this Court and who had 

not filed a request to appear pro hac vice—attended in his absence, along with counsel for 

defendants, Patricia L. Peden. As Mr. Bohrer noted in his declaration, and as was confirmed by 

Mr. Lamb, Mr. Bohrer was “the attorney best suited under the circumstances to participate in a 

meaningful fashion in the case management conference” and “[t]he only other attorney in my 

office who has worked on this matter, Of Counsel J. Pat Heptig, resides and works in Dallas, 

Texas and due to family and work schedules is not available to travel to the Bay Area and 

participate in the case management conference attend [sic] in my absence.” (Bohrer Dec. ¶ 7.) As 

a result of Mr. Bohrer’s absence, the Court and the parties were not able to conduct a meaningful 

CMC. Thus, judicial resources were wasted and defendants incurred unnecessary expense. 

Therefore, the Court SETS a hearing on this Order to Show Cause for Friday, February 6, 

2015 at 4 p.m. Mr. Bohrer is ordered to appear personally. By February 2, 2015, Mr. Bohrer 

shall file a written response to this Order to Show Cause, if he contests it, providing his grounds 

for contesting the Order to Show Cause and explaining his failure to (1) attend the CMC and (2) 

request continuance of the CMC in a timely fashion. Also by February 2, 2015, defendants may 

file a declaration setting forth the expenses they incurred in attending the CMC. 

At the conference, counsel noted the parties were nearing possible settlement of the 

disputes. If notices of settlement are filed in both actions by February 2, 2015, the parties may 

jointly request that the Order to Show Cause hearing be taken off calendar. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: January 26, 2015 

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 YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

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