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Nature of Suit Code: 470
Nature of Suit: Civil (Rico)
Cause of Action: 18:1961 Racketeering (RICO) Act

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ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO WITHDRAW AS COUNSEL

Case No. 2:15-cv-00538-MCE -CMK

1358107

KEKER, VAN NEST & PETERS LLP

ELLIOT R. PETERS - # 158708

epeters@kvn.com

MATTHEW WERDEGAR - # 200470

mwerdegar@kvn.com

ERIN E. MEYER - #274244

emeyer@keker.com

633 Battery Street

San Francisco, CA 94111-1809

Telephone: 415 391 5400 

Facsimile: 415 397 7188

Attorneys for Defendants INES CROSBY; 

JOHN CROSBY; LESLIE LOHSE; LARRY 

LOHSE; TED PATA; JUAN PATA; CHRIS 

PATA; SHERRY MYERS; FRANK JAMES

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

PASKENTA BAND OF NOMLAKI 

INDIANS; and PASKENTA 

ENTERPRISES CORPORATION,

Plaintiffs,

v.

INES CROSBY; et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:15-cv-00538-MCE -CMK

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO 

WITHDRAW AS COUNSEL FOR 

DEFENDANTS INES CROSBY, JOHN 

CROSBY, LESLIE LOHSE, LARRY 

LOHSE, TED PATA, JUAN PATA, CHRIS 

PATA, SHERRY MYERS, AND FRANK 

JAMES.

Date: January 9, 2020

Time: 2:00 p.m.

Courtroom: 7

Judge: Hon. Morrison C. England, Jr.

Date Filed: March 10, 2015

Before the Court is the Motion to Withdraw as Counsel for Defendants Ines Crosby, John 

Crosby, Leslie Lohse, Larry Lohse, Ted Pata, Juan Pata, Chris Pata, Sherry Myers, and Frank 

James (the “Defendants”) filed by Defendants’ counsel, the law firm of Keker, Van Nest & Peters 

LLP on November 27, 2019. ECF No. 469. This matter was scheduled for hearing on January 9, 

2020 in Courtroom 7, before the Honorable Morrison C. England of the above-entitled Court, and 

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subsequently was submitted on the papers. On December 19, 2019, Plaintiffs and Defendant 

Associated Pension Consultants, Inc. filed Statements of Non-Opposition to Defendants’ Motion. 

ECF Nos. 478, 479. No opposition was submitted by Defendants, and the Declaration of Erin E. 

Meyer indicates that Defendants were each contacted by counsel and expressly consented to 

counsel’s withdrawal.

This motion is governed by the requirements of Local Rule 182(d), which provides that 

an attorney may not withdraw, leaving a client in propria persona, absent noticed motion and an 

affidavit from counsel showing the efforts made to provide notification of the attorney’s intent to 

withdraw. Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP has complied with those requirements and its request 

to withdraw is accordingly proper.

Because counsel’s request is both procedurally correct and unopposed, the Motion to 

Withdraw as Counsel of Record (ECF No. 469) is GRANTED. The law firm of Keker, Van Nest 

& Peters LLP is consequently relieved as counsel of record for Defendants effective upon the 

filing of a proof of service of this signed Order on said Defendant.

Pending the submission of any substitution of counsel filed by Ines Crosby, John Crosby, 

Leslie Lohse, Larry Lohse, Ted Pata, Juan Pata, Chris Pata, Sherry Myers, and/or Frank James, 

the Clerk is notified that these Defendants are proceeding in propia persona, and their addresses 

are listed in the Declaration of Erin E. Meyer filed concurrently with the Motion to Withdraw.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 10, 2020

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