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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 05:7703 Discrimination - Review of Agency Act

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ABRAR ELAHI SIDDQUI, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

CITY OF FREMONT, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 16-cv-02012-JSC 

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Re: Dkt. Nos. 10, 23

Plaintiffs Abrar Siddqui and Rahila Khan bring this civil action against Defendants the 

City of Fremont and Leonard Powell as the Community Preservation Manager for City of 

Fremont. (Dkt. No. 1.) On June 20, 2016, Defendants filed a Motion to Dismiss pursuant to 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). (Dkt. No. 10.) After Plaintiffs failed to file a response 

to the motion within the time allotted under Local Rule 7-3, the Court issued an Order directing 

Plaintiffs to file their opposition or statement of non-opposition by July 21, 2016. Plaintiffs 

failed to do so. 

The Court then issued an Order to Show Cause as to why the action should not be 

dismissed with prejudice for failure to prosecute pursuant Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b). 

(Dkt. No. 19.) Plaintiffs responded to the Order to Show Cause contending that counsel “never 

received notification that the responsive pleading had been filed” and was thus “unaware of the 

filing of the motion to dismiss.” (Dkt. No. 20 at 1:26-27; 2:4-5.) In response, the Court issued an 

order noting that as a registered ECF user counsel would have received notice of each filing in 

this action; however, given that Defendants had not suggested that they had been prejudiced, the 

Court again reset the briefing schedule on the motion to dismiss. (Dkt. No. 22.) Five days after 

the Order resetting the briefing schedule, Defendants filed a Motion to Strike Plaintiffs’ State 

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United States District Court

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Law Causes of Action Pursuant to California’s Anti-SLAPP statute seeking attorneys’ fees and 

costs. (Dkt. No. 23.) 

Plaintiffs thereafter failed to file a response to either motion and the time has now run do 

so under Local Rule 7-3. Accordingly, Plaintiffs are again ordered to show cause as to why this 

action should not be dismissed for failure to prosecute under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 

41(b). See Yourish v. California Amplifier, 191 F.3d 983, 991 (9th Cir. 1999). Plaintiffs shall file 

a written response to this order by August 29, 2016. Defendants may, but are not required to, 

file a reply by September 6, 2016. In addition, Plaintiffs and their counsel Brian Kemp 

Hilliard are ordered to personally appear and show cause in person on September 8, 2016 at 

9:00 a.m. in Courtroom F, 450 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, California as to why this 

action should not be dismissed with prejudice for failure to prosecute. Defendants’ counsel 

may contact Court Call at 1-888-882-6878 to make arrangements to appear at the Order to Show 

Cause hearing by telephone.

 If Plaintiffs fail to either respond to this Court’s Order or appear on September 8, 

2016 this action may be dismissed for failure to prosecute and Plaintiffs’ counsel will be 

referred to the Northern District’s Standing Committee on Professional Conduct pursuant 

to Local Rule 11-6(a).

The Case Management Conference Scheduled for September 1, 2016 is VACATED 

pending disposition of this Order to Show Cause.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 25, 2016

JACQUELINE SCOTT CORLEY

United States Magistrate Judge

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ABRAR ELAHI SIDDQUI, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

CITY OF FREMONT, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 16-cv-02012-JSC 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. 

District Court, Northern District of California.

That on August 25, 2016, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by 

placing said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by 

depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery 

receptacle located in the Clerk's office.

Brian Kemp Hilliard

Hilliard & Porrino, P.C.

3911 Harrison Street

Oakland, CA 94611 

Dated: August 25, 2016

Susan Y. Soong

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

Ada Means, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable JACQUELINE SCOTT CORLEY

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