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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1343 Violation of Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SATURN TRANSPORT, INC.,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-07-2447 LEW DAD PS

vs.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, et al., ORDER

Defendants.

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Plaintiff Saturn Transport, Inc. has filed a complaint for negligence and wrongful

assessment of unemployment insurance and has paid the required filing fee of $350.00. Because

the plaintiff corporation purports to have filed this action “in pro per,” the proceeding has been

referred to the undersigned in accordance with Local Rule 72-302(c)(21) and 28 U.S.C.

§ 636(b)(1).

In general, parties may plead and conduct their own cases personally. See 28

U.S.C. § 1654. However, “[a] corporation or other entity may appear only by an attorney.” 

Local Rule 83-183(a). Unlicensed laypersons, including the owners of companies, officers of a

corporation, partners of a partnership, and members of an association may not represent their

entities “pro se.” Rowland v. California Men’s Colony, 506 U.S. 194, 201-02 (1993) (“It has

been the law for the better part of two centuries . . . that a corporation may appear in the federal

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courts only through licensed counsel. . . . [T]hat rule applies equally to all artificial entities.”);

United States v. High Country Broadcasting Co., Inc., 3 F.3d 1244, 1245 (9th Cir. 1993)

(affirming district court’s entry of default judgment against the corporation when the corporation

failed to retain counsel for the duration of the litigation and attempted to proceed through its

unlicensed president and sole shareholder).

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff Saturn Transport, Inc. shall appear

through counsel within fifteen days from the date of this order. Plaintiff is forewarned that

failure to make such an appearance will result in a recommendation that the assigned district

judge dismiss this action without prejudice to the filing of a new action with counsel.

DATED: November 14, 2007.

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