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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Federal Question: Other Civil Rights

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EUREKA DIVISION

INES MENDEZ,

Plaintiff,

v.

CALIFORNIA FORENSIC MEDICAL 

GROUP, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-03756-NJV

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

This matter came on for hearing on August 25, 2015. The purpose of the hearing was to 

inform Plaintiff that he was no longer represented in this case as his counsel was no longer an 

active member of the State bar of California and was suspended from this court’s bar. The court 

planned to inquire of Plaintiff whether he intended to procure new counsel or proceed pro se. To 

that end, the court ordered Plaintiff to appear in person for the August 25, 2015 hearing and served 

copies of that order on Plaintiff at his two last known addresses. Plaintiff did not appear for the 

hearing. Several minutes after the hearing began, Mr. Davies, the aforementioned suspended 

attorney, appeared and with paperwork in hand explained that he had, just that very morning, been 

reinstated to the State Bar of California and that he had spoken with Plaintiff about the hearing. 

However, Mr. Davies was unable to account for Plaintiff’s failure to appear. The court instructed 

Mr. Davies that he would need to reapply for active status with the bar of this court before he 

could proceed as counsel in this case.

The court has now, on two occasions, ordered Plaintiff to attend hearings and Plaintiff has 

now, on two occasions, ignored the orders of this court. Considering the lack of any timely 

response to Defendants’ Motions for Summary Judgment, counsel’s apparent indifference to his 

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bar status, and Plaintiff’s blatant disregard of this court’s orders to appear, it is ORDERED that 

Plaintiff INES MENDEZ shall appear at the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, 3140 

Boeing Avenue, McKinleyville, CA 95519 at 10:00 a.m. on September 22, 2015 and show cause 

as to why this case should not be dismissed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b) for failure 

to prosecute and failure to comply with the orders of the court.

Plaintiff is warned that his failure to appear at the hearing will result in the court 

dismissing this action.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 25, 2015

______________________________________

NANDOR J. VADAS

United States Magistrate Judge

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EUREKA DIVISION

INES MENDEZ,

Plaintiff,

v.

CALIFORNIA FORENSIC MEDICAL 

GROUP, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-03756-NJV 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. 

District Court, Northern District of California.

That on August 25, 2015, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by 

placing said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by 

depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery 

receptacle located in the Clerk's office.

INES MENDES

4014 Little Fairfield

Eureka, CA 95501

INES MENDES

2101 Spring Street

Eureka, CA 95501

Stephen Turner Davies

Turner Litigation Services

P.O. Box 319

Eureka, CA 95502 

Dated: August 25, 2015

Richard W. Wieking

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

Robert Illman, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable NANDOR J. VADAS

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