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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:2201 Declaratory Judgement

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United States District Court 

Northern District of Californi

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

LEGALFORCE RAPC WORLDWIDE P.C., ET 

AL., 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

UPCOUNSEL, INC., 

Defendant.

CASE NO. 18-cv-02573-YGR 

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE: SANCTIONS

On October 19, 2018, defendant filed a Reply in Support of Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs’ 

First Amended Complaint. (Dkt. No. 59 (“Reply”).) Defendant’s use of bullet-point argument 

therein appears to be a significant circumvention of the Civil Local Rules’ limitation that a reply 

brief may not exceed fifteen pages of text. See Civ. L. R. 7.3(c) & 3-4(c)(2) (providing that 

written text must be double-spaced with no more than twenty-eight lines per page). 

Four pages of the Reply contain bullet-point argument. (See Reply at 3–6.) Far from 

constituting merely block quotations, each one of the bullet points improperly includes legal 

argument. The effect allows defendant to congest page three of the Reply with twenty-six lines of 

single-spaced text, in addition to eleven lines of double-spaced text in the body. Page six similarly 

contains seventeen lines of single-spaced text and fifteen lines of double-spaced text in the body. 

Such conduct appears to disregard the limitations of the Civil Local Rules. 

Defense counsel, Simona A. Agnolucci, Nicholas D. Marais, Abraham H. Fine, and 

Jesselyn K. Friley, are hereby ORDERED TO SHOW CAUSE why the Court should not impose 

monetary sanctions and/or strike the bullet-point argument contained in pages three through six of 

the Reply due to counsel’s failure to follow the Local Rules. A hearing on the Order to Show 

Cause shall be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 2:01 p.m. in the Federal Courthouse, 1301 

Clay Street, Oakland, California in Courtroom 1. Defense counsel must file a written response to 

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this Order to Show Cause by no later than Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. explaining 

counsel’s failure to comply with the above rules, as well as certifying that each counsel has 

personally read and understands the Civil Local Rules regarding motion practice. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: November 5, 2018 

 YVONNE GONZALEZ ROGERS

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

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