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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Interpleader Action

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1 As the Order states:

The failure of one or more of the parties to

participate in the preparation of the Joint

Status Report does not excuse the other

parties from their obligation to timely file

a status report in accordance with this

Order. In the event a party fails to

participate as ordered, the party timely

submitting the status report shall include a

declaration explaining why it was unable to

obtain the cooperation of the other party or

parties. 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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AMERICAN GENERAL LIFE & ACCIDENT ) 2:05-cv-1295-GEB-DAD 

INSURANCE COMPANY, )

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Plaintiff, )

) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

v. ) AND CONTINUING STATUS

) (PRETRIAL SCHEDULING)

VINCENT BROTHERS, et al., ) CONFERENCE

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Defendants. )

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The October 5, 2005, “Order Re Status (Pretrial Scheduling)

Conference” scheduled a status conference in this case for January 23,

2006, and required the parties to file a Joint Status Report no later

than fourteen days prior to the scheduling conference. The Order

further required that a status report be filed regardless of whether a

joint report could be procured.1 No status report was filed as

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1(...continued)

Order filed October 5, 2005, at 2 n. 2.

2 “If the fault lies with the attorney, that is where the

impact of sanction should be lodged. If the fault lies with the

clients, that is where the impact of the sanction should be

lodged.” Matter of Sanction of Baker, 744 F.2d 1438, 1442 (10th

Cir. 1984), cert. denied, 471 U.S. 1014 (1985). Sometimes the

faults of attorneys, and their consequences, are visited upon

clients. In re Hill, 775 F.2d 1385, 1387 (9th Cir. 1985).

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ordered.

The parties and counsel are Ordered to Show Cause (OSC) no

later than 4:00 p.m. on January 27, 2006, why sanctions should not be

imposed under Rule 16(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

against counsel and/or a party for the failure to file a timely status

report, as ordered. The written response shall state whether a party

or counsel is at fault and whether a hearing is requested on the OSC.2

If a hearing is requested, it will be held on February 21, 2006, at

9:00 a.m., just prior to the status conference, which is rescheduled

to that date. 

Defendant’s counsel is also ordered to show cause why

counsel should not be sanctioned under Rule 16(f) for counsel’s

failure to appear at the status conference held on October 3, 2005. 

As stated above a written response shall be filed no later than 

4:00 p.m. on January 27, 2006, and counsel shall state in that

response whether a hearing is requested on the OSC. If a hearing is

requested, it will be held on February 21, 2006, at 9:00 a.m.

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The parties shall file a joint status report no later than

4:00 p.m. on January 27, 2006, in which each side need only propose 

procedures or a proposed order for resolving the action. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 12, 2006

/s/ Garland E. Burrell, Jr.

GARLAND E. BURRELL, JR.

United States District Judge

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