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

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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*E-filed 6/20/06*

NOT FOR CITATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

SHIRLEY PONCINI,

Plaintiff,

 v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Defendant. /

No. C 05-00233 HRL

ORDER IMPOSING SANCTIONS

AGAINST PLAINTIFF’S COUNSEL

Re Docket No. 26

Gerald H. Scher, plaintiff’s counsel, represented to the court in an April 25 declaration

that his email address for the CM/ECF system had been established and that he would receive

all future notifications. The court learned at an Order to Show Cause hearing this morning that

this was not true. It is the lawyer’s responsibility that his office e-mail addresses are

monitored, most certainly the address used for the court’s CM/ECF system.

Furthermore, Mr. Scher failed to appear at the June 6 hearing on defendant’s motion to

dismiss for failure to prosecute. The court then told him to file a declaration explaining this

failure. Mr. Scher claims to have done so, but the court has not seen any paper copies of this

declaration, nor does this declaration appear on the court’s electronic docket. 

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The court will not tolerate further such missteps by Mr. Scher, and sanctions him the sum of

$200.00, to be paid forthwith to the clerk of the court. In other respects, the order to show

cause is discharged.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 6/20/06 /s/ Howard R. Lloyd 

HOWARD R. LLOYD

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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