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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 29:623 Job Discrimination (Age)

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ORDER (No. 3:16-cv-00797-LB)

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

San Francisco Division

WILLIAM J. WHITSITT,

Plaintiff,

v.

TESLA MOTORS, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 3:16-cv-00797-LB 

ORDER

The court finds that the plaintiff has shown good cause in his filing at ECF No. 14 for his 

failure to provide the addresses for the defendants; the court thus discharges the order to show 

cause at ECF No. 13.1 The court grants the plaintiff’s motion to amend the complaint to correct 

errors in the defendants’ names, which means that the named defendants are as follows: 1) Tesla 

Motors, Inc., 2) M.B. Tesla Motors, Inc., 3) West Valley Staffing Group, and 4) 25 unnamed 

defendants.2 The court directs the Clerk to amend the defendants’ names on the docket sheet.

The remaining issue is the service address for the defendants. The plaintiff must provide that 

address within 21 days. As the court explained before, the U.S. Marshal cannot serve the 

 1 Citations are to material in the Electronic Case File (“ECF”); pinpoint citations are to the ECF- generated page numbers at the top of the documents. 

2 ECF No. 14 at 1.

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ORDER (No. 3:16-cv-00797-LB) 2

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complaint without the addresses, and if there is no service, the case cannot go forward.3

The court will serve a copy of this order by mail to Mr. Whitsitt’s address and send a courtesy 

copy to the email that is reflected on the docket sheet. The court reminds Mr. Whitsitt that the 

court has a help desk for people who are representing himself and attaches another copy of the

Help Center’s flyer. The court previously sent Mr. Whitsitt a copy of the flyer and the district 

court’s Handbook for Litigants Without a Lawyer.4

To avoid losing track of the case, the court resets the initial case-management conference for 

October 13, 2016, at 11 a.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 21, 2016

______________________________________

LAUREL BEELER

United States Magistrate Judge

 3 See ECF No. 13.

4 See ECF No. 5.

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