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Nature of Suit Code: 465
Nature of Suit: Other Immigration Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

NAZIA JABEEN IQBAL, 

Plaintiff, 

v.

UNITED STATES CITIZEN AND 

IMMIGRATION SERVICES, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:13-CV-01272-MCE-AC 

ORDER 

Presently before the Court is the Government’s Motion for a 60-Day Extension of 

Time to file a Status Report (ECF No. 36) because the status of Plaintiff’s counsel 

remains to be resolved. Plaintiff’s counsel previously filed a notice of withdrawal (ECF 

No. 29), which was rejected by this Court via minute order (ECF No. 30) for failure to 

comply with the local rules.1

 Counsel thereafter filed a proposed “Substitution of 

Attorney,” which this Court rejected via a written order electronically filed on September 

9, 2014, for once again failing to comply with the local rules. ECF No. 35. Moreover, in 

that Order, the Court specifically directed Plaintiff’s counsel to either properly notice a 

motion to withdraw or file a statement advising the Court that counsel would continue to 

represent Plaintiff. To date, counsel has not responded. 

 1 Among other things, those rules mandate that “an attorney who has appeared may not withdraw 

leaving the client in propria persona without leave of court upon noticed motion and notice to the client and 

all other parties who have appeared.” E.D. Cal. Local Rule 182(d).

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The Government’s Motion (ECF No. 36) is GRANTED. However, as a result of 

Plaintiff’s counsel’s failure to respond to the Court’s Order (ECF No. 35), and his multiple 

failures to file a properly noticed motion to withdraw, within ten (10) days from the date 

this order is electronically filed, Plaintiff’s counsel shall either: (1) personally pay 

sanctions in the amount of $250.00 to the Clerk of the Court; or (2) show good cause in 

writing for the failure to comply with the local rules and this Court’s orders. By that same 

date, Plaintiff’s counsel must either: (1) properly notice a motion to withdraw to be heard 

on the Court’s regular civil calendar; or (2) file a statement advising the Court that 

counsel will continue to represent Plaintiff. Failure to comply with any aspect of this 

order will result in the imposition of sanctions and the reporting of counsel to the State 

Bar of California upon no further notice to the parties. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: October 7, 2014

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