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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DENNIS GARDNER,

Plaintiff,

v.

J. JOHANIGEN,

Defendant.

Case No. 13-cv-03193-WHO (PR) 

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY 

THE ACTION SHOULD NOT BE 

DISMISSED

Plaintiff Dennis Gardner is ordered to show cause on or before July 15, 2015 why 

this action should not be dismissed for failure to prosecute. No extensions of time will be 

granted. Gardner, even though he has been free from incarceration since September 2014, 

has repeatedly failed to prosecute this civil rights action, causing defendant to file a motion 

to dismiss for that reason. (Docket No. 66.) Gardner has failed to (1) respond to the 

Court’s telephone messages; (2) appear for any depositions with defendant, including those 

he specifically agreed to attend on November 25, 2014 and January 21, 2015; and 

(3) respond to defendant’s repeated attempts to schedule depositions. 

To avoid dismissal, Gardner must do the following on or before July

15, 2015: 

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1. Provide the Court with a telephone number through which he can be contacted, 

and respond within 24 hours to any calls by the Court so that a telephonic case 

management conference can be scheduled;

2. Participate in the case management conference that the Court will then schedule; 

and

3. Contact defendant to schedule his deposition, to take place within 30 days from 

the date he contacts defendant. 

If Gardner fails to respond to this order to show cause, the action will be dismissed 

for failure to prosecute. It may be dismissed with prejudice. If he subsequently fails to 

return the Court’s telephone messages within 24 hours, or to appear for any telephonic or 

in-person case management conference (or other court proceeding), or to appear for the 

scheduled deposition with defendant, the action may be dismissed for failure to prosecute. 

Gardner should consider this to be his last chance to litigate this matter. Given his 

wholesale failure to prosecute his case to this point, the patience of the Court is at an end 

and requests for extensions or excuses for noncompliance will not be granted or considered 

absent good cause. 

Because this order addresses the concerns raised by defendant, the motion to 

dismiss (Docket No. 66) is DENIED as moot.

The Clerk shall terminate Docket No. 66. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 4, 2015

_________________________

WILLIAM H. ORRICK

United States District Judge

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