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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SOCIETE D’EQUIPMENTS 

INTERNATIONAUX NIGERIA, LTD.,

Plaintiff,

v.

DOLARIAN CAPITAL, INC.; and 

ARA G. DOLARIAN;

Defendants.

No. 1:15-cv-01553-GEB-SKO

ORDER STRIKING DEFENDANT 

DOLARIAN CAPITAL, INC.’S ANSWER

Defendants Ara G. Dolarian and Dolarian Capital, Inc. 

filed a joint Answer to the Complaint in propria persona on 

November 18, 2015. (ECF No. 11.) However, a corporation and other 

business entity is only permitted to appear in federal court 

through counsel. See E.D. Cal. R. 183(a); Rowland v. Calif. Men’s 

Colony, Unit II Men’s Advisory Council, 506 U.S. 194, 201-02 

(1993) (“It has been the law for the better part of two centuries 

. . . that a corporation may appear in the federal courts only 

through licensed counsel.”). 

Therefore, the Answer is stricken as to Defendant 

Dolarian Capital, Inc. See Rojas v. Hawgs Seafood Bar, Inc., No. 

C08-03819, 2009 WL 1255538, at *1 (N.D. Cal. 2009) (“When a 

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corporation fails to retain counsel to represent it in an action, 

its answer may be stricken and a default judgment entered against 

it.”). 

Dated: November 25, 2015

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