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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Personal Injury

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Moji Zahedi and Debra Zahedi, )

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Plaintiffs, ) No. CV 06-1547-PHX-PGR

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vs. )

) ORDER

Home Depot, Inc., et al., )

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Defendants. ) )

Pursuant to the Court's Order Setting Scheduling Conference ("OSSC")

entered on October 4, 2006, the Scheduling Conference in this matter was set for

November 13, 2006 at 1:30 p.m. While counsel for defendant Home Deport, Inc.

timely appeared for the Scheduling Conference, counsel for the plaintiffs did not

appear at all. Because all parties need to be present in order for the Scheduling

Conference to be meaningful, the Court will continue the Scheduling Conference

to November 27, 2006 at 2:00 p.m.

Since the plaintiffs and their counsel were expressly warned in the OSSC

that a failure to appear at the Scheduling Conference would lead to the imposition

of an appropriate sanction, the Court will permit defendant Home Depot to seek

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 Paragraph 6 of the OSSC stated in part that 

THE PARTIES AND THEIR COUNSEL ARE WARNED THAT APPROPRIATE

SANCTIONS MAY BE IMPOSED PURSUANT TO FED.R.CIV.P. 16(f) and

FED.R.CIV.P. 37(b)(2) ... IF THERE IS A FAILURE TO ATTEND THE

SCHEDULING CONFERENCE.

(Emphasis in original). See also, LRCiv 83.1(e).

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its reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred in attending the aborted

Scheduling Conference.1

 The plaintiffs and their counsel are warned that their

failure to attend the reset Scheduling Conference will result in an appropriate

sanction being imposed, which sanction may include the dismissal of this action

without further notice. Therefore,

IT IS ORDERED that the Scheduling Conference set for November 13,

2006 is continued to Monday, November 27, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. in Courtroom

601 due to the non-appearance of the plaintiffs' counsel. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that defendant Home Depot, Inc. shall have

through November 24, 2006 in which to file a motion pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P.

16(f) and 37(b)(2) seeking an award of its reasonable attorney's fees and costs

incurred as a result of having to attend the Scheduling Conference set on

November 13, 2006.

DATED this 15th day of November, 2006.

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