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Nature of Suit Code: 220
Nature of Suit: Foreclosure
Cause of Action: 15:1601 Truth in Lending

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 The Court notes that Plaintiff’s “Petition for Temporary 1

Injunction,” also makes reference to the need for a preliminary

injunction. Accordingly, the Court will address Plaintiff’s

Petition as having requested both forms of injunctive relief. 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MARINA WEAHUNT, No. 2:10-cv-02122-MCE-KJM

Plaintiff,

v. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORTGAGEIT INC.,

Defendant.

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This action arises out of a mortgage loan transaction in

which Plaintiff Marina Weahunt (“Plaintiff”) refinanced property

at 3004 Aberdeen Lane, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762. Presently

before the Court is Plaintiff’s ex parte application for a

Temporary Restraining Order (“TRO”) and Preliminary Injunction ,

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pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65, to enjoin

Defendant MortgageIt, Inc. (“Defendant”) from executing a

foreclosure sale of her home.

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Pursuant to Local Rule 231(a) “[e]xcept in the most

extraordinary of circumstances, no temporary restraining order

shall be granted in the absence of actual notice to the affected

party and/or counsel, by telephone or other means, or a

sufficient showing of efforts made to provide notice.” Moreover,

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(b) mandates that the Court may

not issue a TRO without notice to the adverse party unless: 

“a) specific facts in an affidavit or verified

complaint clearly show that immediate and irreparable

injury, loss, or damage will result to the movant

before the adverse party can be heard in opposition;

and

b) the movant’s attorney certifies in writing any

efforts made to give notice and the reasons why it

should not be required.” 

Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(b)(emphasis added). Issuance of a Preliminary

Injunction requires actual notice to the adverse party. Fed. R.

Civ. P. 65(a). 

Plaintiff has failed to indicate any efforts made to provide

notice to Defendant. Rather, the TRO Checklist completed by

Plaintiff (Docket No. 7) specifically acknowledges that there has

been no actual notice nor efforts to provide notice to the

Defendant and, at best, states that “[Plaintiff is] going to

notify Defendant,” at some unspecified point in the future. This

is insufficient to meet the mandates of Local Rules and the

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The Court cannot, on these

grounds, provide Plaintiff the relief requested. 

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Additionally, Plaintiff’s pleading fails to provide the date

and time of the expected trustee’s sale of her home. As a

procedural matter, it is not possible for the Court to enjoin an

event which, within the Court’s knowledge, is not yet scheduled

to occur. Plaintiff can not be said to have met her burden of

showing immediate irreparable harm, when the immediacy of the

harm not been definitively alleged. 

Given Plaintiff’s failure to provide any notice whatsoever

to Defendant, or to provide the Court with the date and time of

the foreclosure sale, Plaintiff’s Application for Temporary

Restraining Order is DENIED without prejudice. To the extent

that Plaintiff intended her request for relief to also constitute

a Motion for Preliminary Injunction, it is also DENIED without

prejudice.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 10, 2010

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MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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