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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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United States District Court 

Northern District of California 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MELANIE C. LATRONICA, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

MARTIN O. HALFHILL, et al.,

 Defendants. 

Case No.: 14-cv-4257 YGR

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR RELIEF FROM 

JUDGMENT AND EX PARTE APPLICATION 

DKT. NOS. 54, 56 

Pro se Plaintiff Melanie C. Latronica (“Latronica”) filed this action on September 19, 2014. 

By order dated February 4, 2015, this Court dismissed the instant action. (Dkt. No. 53.) 

On April 15, 2015, Latronica filed her “Motion For Disqualification of Judges and Their 

Ordered Recusal Voiding Judgment Order In It’s [sic] Entirety.” (Dkt. No. 55, “Motion to 

Disqualify.”) Therein, Latronica indicated that she was seeking disqualification of the undersigned 

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 144, in addition to relief from a judgment or order under Rule 60 of the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. That same day, Latronica filed separate documents entitled Ex 

Parte Application Motion Request or Filings To Go To the Judges Requested for Ex Parte 

Communication” (Dkt. No. 54, “Ex Parte”) and “Motion for Relief from Judgment and Order From 

YGR & ET Judges” (Dkt. No. 56, “Rule 60 Motion”). 

In accordance with 28 U.S.C. 144 and Local Rule 3-14, the undersigned referred the Motion 

to Disqualify and any other request for disqualification made in connection with Plaintiff’s other 

April 15, 2015 filings, for random reassignment to another judge of this court. The disqualification 

issues were assigned by the Court’s Executive Committee to Judge Jon S. Tigar. (Dkt. No. 60). On 

May 29, 2015, Judge Tigar issued an Order Denying the Motion to Disqualify. (Dkt. No. 62.) The 

disqualification having been resolved, the Court now addresses the other pending matters: the Ex 

Parte and the Rule 60 Motion. 

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United States District Court 

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The Ex Parte invoked the Administrative Procedure Act and sought a sanction or the setting 

of a hearing. (Ex Parte at 2, 3.) The Rule 60 Motion, in addition to asking for reassignment of the 

instant case, sought relief from judgment pursuant to FRCP 60 on a number of grounds (excusable 

neglect, discovery of new evidence, fraudulent concealment, void judgment, and judgment was 

satisfied, released or discharged), as well as other “extraordinary circumstances” justifying relief. 

Plaintiff alleged that she can has claims under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act 18 U.S.C. 

§ 2510, which provides relief for persons whose wire, oral or electronic communications are 

intercepted or disclosed illegally, and the Stored Communications Act 18 U.S.C. § 2710, which 

authorizes relief to persons who have been subject to unlawful use of or access to their electronic 

records. She alleges that she is a “victim of technology” as well as “chattel slavery, identity theft, 

involuntary servitude, gross life deprivation and being under some [sic] else’s control (intellectual 

property owner and chattel owner” violating their liberty bodily integrity and their right to live and 

conduct their own lives, their will, their flow.” (Motion at 5.) 

As with Plaintiff’s complaint and amended complaint in this action, the basis for her motion 

here is largely incomprehensible and completely implausible. She has not established any grounds 

for relief from this Court’s order dismissing her amended complaint. 

The Motion and the Ex Parte are DENIED. 

This order terminates Dkt. Nos. 54 and 56. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: June 29, 2015 __________________________________________ 

YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

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