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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Civil Rights Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

S. ORTIZ, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

GERARDO ALVAREZ, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 1:15-cv-00535-KJM-GSA 

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE 

On May 7, 2015, the court issued its standing order in this case. ECF No. 14-1. In 

that order, the parties were directed to meet and confer before the filing of any motion. Id. at 3. 

Specifically, the court ordered, “Counsel should discuss the issues sufficiently so that if a motion 

of any kind is filed, including for summary judgment, the briefing is directed only to those 

substantive issues requiring resolution by the court. Counsel should resolve minor procedural or 

other non-substantive matters during the meet and confer.” Id. The court ordered the parties to 

include with the notice of any motion “a certification by counsel filing the motion that meet 

and confer efforts have been exhausted, with a brief summary of meet and confer efforts.” 

Id. (emphasis in original). 

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On October 12, 16, and 20, 2015, the defendants filed several motions to dismiss 

and to strike. See ECF Nos. 35, 37, 38, 41, 42, 45, 46. The notices of these motions included no 

certifications of the parties’ efforts to meet and confer. 

The defendants are each ORDERED TO SHOW CAUSE, within seven days of 

entry of this order, why they should not each be sanctioned in the amount of $250 for failure to 

comply with this court’s order. The possibility of sanctions will be abated if, prior to the date by 

which reply briefs are due, defense counsel meet and confer with plaintiffs’ counsel and notify 

the count, concurrently with the filing of any reply, whether any issues addressed by defendants’ 

motions have been narrowed. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: November 3, 2016. 

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