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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 15:1692 Fair Debt Collection Act

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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*E-FILED 6/22/05*

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

SUSANNE PALMER, 

Plaintiff,

 v.

 I.C. SYSTEMS, INC., ET AL.,

Defendants.

 /

NO. 5:04-cv-3237 RS

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE 

TO CDC AS TO WHY IT

SHOULD NOT BE HELD 

IN CONTEMPT

Plaintiff Susanne Palmer("Palmer") requeststhat the Court issue anorder to showcause to third party

DelRoble CDC ("CDC") as a result of CDC's alleged failure to provide responsive documentsto a subpoena

ducestecumissued byPalmer onJanuary3, 2005. Although CDC appears to have been properly served with

the subpoena and, in fact, provided some documents in response thereto, Palmer contends that CDC has

additional responsive documents which it previously agreed to produce but, to date, has not done so. As a

result, Palmer asks the Court to require a response fromCDC asto why it hasfailed to produce the remaining

responsive documents.

Fed. R. Civ. Pro. 45(e) states that a person or entity who, without cause, fails to obey a properly

served subpoena maybe held incontempt ofthe courtfromwhichthe subpoena issued. Moreover, 28 U.S.C.

§ 636(e)(1) authorizes this Court to hold CDC in contempt should it be found to have disobeyed a valid

subpoena. For these reasons, the Court orders CDC to appear onJuly 13, 2005 at 9:30 a.m. and showcause

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as to why it should not be held in contempt as a result of its failure to provide all responsive documents to

Palmer in a timely fashion. In the alternative, CDC may, on or before July 8, 2005, serve all remaining,

responsive documents onPalmer. In that event, Palmer shall notify the Court that she has received all remaining

documents and the order to show cause will be discharged. Palmer is ordered to serve a copyofthis order on

CDC within three (3) calendar days. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 6/22/05 /s/ Richard Seeborg 

RICHARD SEEBORG

United States Magistrate Judge

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THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT NOTICE OF THIS ORDER HAS BEEN DELIVERED TO:

Paul Arons lopa@rockisland.com 

O. Randolph Bragg rand@horwitzlaw.com, shannon@horwitzlaw.com 

June D. Coleman jcoleman@mpbf.com, mellis@mpbf.com;fwilson@mpbf.com 

Mark Ewell Ellis mellis@mpbf.com, restrella@mpbf.com;npruitt@mpbf.com 

Andrew Steinheimer asteinheimer@mpbf.com,

lmiller@mpbf.com;mellis@mpbf.com;vaxeman@mpbf.com 

Ronald Wilcox ronaldwilcox@post.harvard.edu 

Dated: 6/22/05 Chambers of Judge Richard Seeborg

By: /s/ BAK 

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