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Nature of Suit Code: 350
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Auto Negligence

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CECILIA MEJIA,

Plaintiffs,

v.

TRAILINER CROP., and 

RONNIE WOOD, et al.,

Defendants.

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Old Case No. 1: 05 CV 01375 AWI DLB

New Case No. 1: 05 CV 01375 AWI TAG

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE

SANCTIONS;

ORDER SETTING SCHEDULING

CONFERENCE; and 

ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE

Complaint in this action was filed in the Superior Court of California, Kern County on

July 11, 2005. On October 31, 2005 Defendants, acting through their attorney Raymond D.

McElfish, filed a notice of removal of the action to this Court. On November 1, 2005 an Order

Setting Scheduling Conference (Fed. R. Civ. P. 16) was issued by the undersigned and served

electronically on Defendants. Among other things the Order set a Scheduling Conference to be

heard December 20, 2005 at 9:15 a.m. in Courtroom 5 before the undersigned. The Order also

directed attorneys for the parties to meet and confer and to prepare a Joint Scheduling

Conference Report addressing matters set forth in some detail in the Order and to file the Joint

Scheduling Conference Report with the Court prior to the Joint Scheduling Conference. The

Order included a warning regarding sanctions for failure to comply 

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SHOULD COUNSEL OR A PARTY APPEARING PRO SE FAIL TO

APPEAR AT THE MANDATORY SCHEDULING CONFERENCE, OR

FAIL TO COMPLY WITH THE DIRECTIONS AS SET FORTH ABOVE,

AN EX PARTE HEARING MAY BE HELD AND JUDGMENT OF

DISMISSAL, DEFAULT, OR OTHER APPROPRIATE JUDGMENT MAY

BE ENTERED, OR SANCTIONS, INCLUDING CONTEMPT OF COURT,

MAY BE IMPOSED AND/OR ORDERED

On December 8, 2005 Plaintiff filed a Scheduling Conference Report. Counsel for

Plaintiff stated in the Report that he had attempted to contact counsel for Defendants by

telephone regarding the preparation of the Joint Scheduling Conference Report and had left a

message but had received no response. On December 20, 2005 at 9:15 a.m. Mr. Welchans,

counsel for Plaintiff, appeared by phone at the Scheduling Conference. Counsel for Defendants

failed to appear and failed to contact the Court regarding the Scheduling Conference.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that counsel for Defendants appear, in person,

before this Court on January 4, 2006 at 8:30 a.m. and Show Cause, if any there may be, why

appropriate sanctions should not be imposed on counsel and/or the Defendants for the failure to

comply with this Court’s Order Setting Scheduling Conference and for failure to appear at

Scheduling Conference as ordered on December 20, 2005. 

A Scheduling Conference shall be held on January 4, 2006 immediately following

hearing on the Order to Show Cause. Defendants are ORDERED to contact Plaintiff and to meet

and confer regarding the preparation of a Joint Scheduling Conference Report in conformity with

this Court’s Order Setting Scheduling Conference. It shall be the obligation of Defendant’s

counsel to contact Plaintiff’s counsel and arrange for a conference in connection with the

preparation of the Report and the Report shall be prepared and filed by Defendants no later than

January 2, 2006. 

Plaintiff’s counsel may appear by telephone at both the Order to Show Cause and the

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Scheduling Conference, but should notify the Court in advance if he desires to appear

telephonically. 

It appearing that this matter is venued in Kern County this matter is reassigned from the

undersigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa A. Goldner. The new case number is 1: 05 CV

01375 AWI TAG. Subsequent to the hearing on the Order to Show Cause and the Scheduling

Conference discussed above all appearances before the Magistrate Judge assigned to this action

shall be before U. S. Magistrate Judge Theresa A. Goldner, either in her chambers at 1200

Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, California or in the Bankruptcy Court at 1300 18 Street, th

Bakersfield, California.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: December 21, 2005 /s/ Dennis L. Beck 

3b142a UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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