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Parties Involved:
Robert Albert Ruiz
Defendant
USA
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff,

v.

ROBERT ALBERT RUIZ,

Defendant.

 

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ORDER AFTER ORDER TO SHOW

CAUSE HEARING AS TO

ATTORNEY GREG MORRIS

On June 13, 2005, the Court held a hearing as to why

attorney Greg Morris should not be sanctioned for his failures to

obey court orders and unannounced failures to appear at regularly

scheduled appearances of the Defendant at status conferences in

this criminal case.

At the time of the hearing of the OSC, Mr. Morris was late

and offered no explanation for his failures to appear when

previously ordered to do so.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that attorney Greg Morris pay a

sanction to the court in the amount of $750.00 per non-appearance

for a total of $2,250.00 and that he pay to the United States

Courts the amount of $178.00 per appearance of the sign language

interpreter, who was required to assist the defendant, for a

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total of $534.00. Said sanction and payment of costs will be

paid within ten days of the date of mailing of this order.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk serve a copy of this

order on the State Bar of California.

DATED: June 27, 2005.

/s/ OLIVER W. WANGER

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Oliver W. Wanger

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

usa v. ruiz order 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

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ROBERT ALBERT RUIZ )

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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an

employee in the Office of the Clerk, U. S. District

Court, Eastern District of California at Fresno.

I served on June 28, 2005 a copy of the attached by

placing said copy in a postage-paid envelope addressed

to the persons hereinafter listed, by depositing said

envelope in the United States Mail at Fresno,

California; or by placing said copy into an interoffice delivery receptacle located in the Clerk's

Office.

SERVED BY MAIL 

Greg Morris

P O Box 40100

Fresno, CA 93710-4010

State Bar of California

180 Howard Street

San Francisco, CA 94105 

By. /s/ G. LUCAS

Courtroom Deputy

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