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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Employment Discrimination

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EMANUEL LOPEZ, 

Plaintiff,

v.

COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS 

MANAGEMENT, LLC,

Defendant.

Case No.: 15-cv-1220 YGR

ORDER DIRECTING PERSONAL APPEARANCE 

AT HEARING BY COUNSEL AND BY 

PLAINTIFF EMANUEL LOPEZ

Counsel Jocelyn Burton, Scott Nakama, and Burton Employment Law (“Moving Counsel”) 

have filed their Motion to Withdraw as Counsel for Plaintiff Emanuel Lopez. (Dkt. No. 45.) As of 

the date of this order, no response has been filed by Plaintiff Emanuel Lopez. However, Defendant 

Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC, has filed a response to the motion raising 

concerns about transfer of confidential information produced in discovery herein pursuant to the 

parties’ stipulated protective order, including whether it will be maintained in a secure manner, and 

whether inadvertently produced documents pertaining to other employees will be returned. Moving 

Counsel indicates, in their response, that the discovery motion deadline has passed and, despite the 

extension granted by the Court, Defendant failed to file any motion to resolve the inadvertent 

disclosure issue timely. 

The Court is inclined to permit Moving Counsel to withdraw, but requires additional 

information from the parties, including Plaintiff Emanuel Lopez who will be self-represented upon 

granting this motion. Moving Counsel, Defendant, and Plaintiff Emanuel Lopez are therefore 

ORDERED to appear personally at the hearing on August 9, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. in Courtroom 1, 1301 

Clay Street, Oakland, prepared to discuss handling of the documents at issue. Moving Counsel is 

ORDERED to notify Plaintiff Emanuel Lopez of the requirement that he personally appear by phone, 

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email, or other means calculated to give prompt notice, and to file a declaration attesting to such 

notice no later than 12:00 noon on August 8, 2016. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 4, 2016

_______________________________________

YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

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