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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:451 Employment Discrimination

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United States District Court 

Northern District of California 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RABAB ABDULHADI,

Plaintiff,

vs. 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CALIFORNIA 

STATE UNIVERSITY, ET. AL.,

Defendants.

Case No.: 4:18-cv-04662-YGR 

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE: SANCTIONS FOR 

FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH STANDING 

ORDER

This Court’s Standing Order In Civil Cases requires that, at case management conferences, 

“each party shall be represented at case management conferences by lead trial counsel or counsel 

with authority to enter into stipulations and make admissions pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(a) and 

(c), as well as fully prepared to address all of the matters in the CAND CMC Order and Civil L.R. 

16-10(b).” (Standing Order in Civil Cases, ¶ 6.) The Standing Order further provides that: 

Failure to do so shall be considered grounds for sanctions. Because of the 

substantive discussions that occur during case management conferences, 

telephonic appearances are disfavored. The Court will grant requests to appear by 

telephone only upon a compelling showing of good cause. The routine 

inconveniences of travel do not constitute good cause. 

 An initial case management conference in this matter was scheduled for November 4, 2019. 

Counsel appearing for defendants was not lead trial counsel or counsel with the requisite knowledge 

to engage in the conference. 

Therefore, Lead Counsel Bradley S. Phillips is ORDERED TO SHOW CAUSE why he should not 

be sanctioned in the amount of $250.00 for failure to comply with this Court’s Standing Order. A 

hearing on this Order to Show Cause will be held on Friday, November 22, 2019, on the Court’s 

9:01a.m. Calendar, in the Federal Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, California, in Courtroom 1. 

By no later than Friday, November 15, 2019, Mr. Phillips must file a written response to this 

Order to Show Cause, including a statement as to whether he read the Court’s Standing Order. If the 

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Court is satisfied with the response, it may vacate the hearing on the Order to Show Cause. 

Otherwise, lead trial counsel must personally appear at the hearing. Neither a special appearance nor 

a telephonic appearance will be permitted. Failure to file a written response or to appear personally 

will be deemed an admission that no good cause exists and that the imposition of monetary sanctions 

is appropriate. 

Alternatively, Mr. Phillips may also submit a statement with assurance of future compliance 

and pay the sanction. If this option is chosen, the Court will take the matter off calendar. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: November 5, 2019 

____________________________________ 

YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

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