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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CHERYL COTTERILL,

Plaintiff,

 v.

SF CITY AND COUNTY, ET AL., 

Defendants. /

No. C 08-02295 JSW

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR

ADMINISTRATIVE RELIEF AND

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Now before the Court is the motion for administrative relief filed by defendants, The

Regents of the University of California and related individual defendants (collectively,

“Defendants”). Plaintiff has filed no opposition. Plaintiff has submitted a letter after expiration

of the period for objecting to the administrative motion requesting that the Court reset the case

management conference and extend the period to object to the outstanding motion. 

The administrative motion requests that the Court allow Defendants to be relieved of the

obligation of submitting joint statements and/or statement co-authored by Plaintiff’s counsel,

Gregory M. Haynes. Attached to the motion are documents that indicate that communication

between counsel has broken down to the point where filing joint submissions is particularly

difficult. 

The Court is not pleased by the level of incivility in this matter. It is unacceptable. 

However, the Court will not excuse the meet and confer requirements for joint submissions. 

Therefore, the administrative motion is DENIED. 

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United States District Court

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Instead, at the case management conference set for October 10, 2008 at 1:30 p.m., the

Court will address, and resolve, the incivility present in this case. The behavior exhibited in the

documents attached to the administrative motion does nothing to advance the interests of the

parties and will simply not be tolerated by this Court. The parties shall submit a joint case

management statement by no later than October 3, 2008. To the extent there are substantive

matters that the parties do not agree upon, the statement shall reflect such disagreement and

shall do so in a civil and respectful manner.

In addition, the Court issues this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE why Plaintiff’s counsel

should not be sanctioned for failure to meet and confer in good faith. Plaintiff’s counsel shall

file a written response by no later than October 6, 2008 why sanctions should not be levied

against him and responding to the specific allegations of misconduct detailed in the

administrative motion and again in the responsive letter from Defendants’ counsel dated

September 29, 2008. Counsel for both parties are hereby ORDERED to attend the case

management conference on October 10, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. accompanied by their client or client

representative.

Plaintiff’s late-filed request to reschedule the case management conference and to

extend the deadline for opposing the administrative motion is DENIED. See N.D. Civ. L.R. 7-

11(b). The request is untimely and counsel clearly require Court intervention.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 30, 2008 

JEFFREY S. WHITE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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