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Parties Involved:
Laurel Collins
Plaintiff
Education Source, Inc.
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LAUREL COLLINS,

Plaintiff,

v.

EDUCATION SOURCE, INC.,

Defendant.

No. 2:16-cv-0282-KJM-KJN

ORDER

Presently before the court is plaintiff Laurel Collins’s (“plaintiff”) renewed motion for 

default judgment against defendant Education Source, Inc. (“defendant”).

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(ECF No. 10.) To 

date, defendant has not opposed plaintiff’s motion, or otherwise made any filings in this action. 

A hearing on this matter was held before the undersigned on October 13, 2016. Attorneys Annick 

Persinger and Lawrence Fisher appeared telephonically on behalf of plaintiff.2 Defendant failed 

to appear. 

 

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This motion was referred to the undersigned pursuant to E.D. Cal. L.R. 302(c)(19) and 28 

U.S.C. § 636(b)(1).

2 As discussed on the record during the hearing, the court finds plaintiff’s response to the order to 

show cause (ECF No. 9) adequately addresses the court’s concerns regarding plaintiff’s failure to 

appear at the August 4, 2016 hearing. Accordingly, the order to show cause is discharged as to 

plaintiff.

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During the hearing, plaintiff’s counsel represented that plaintiff intends to seek out 

information related to ascertaining the members of the putative class alleged in the complaint and 

then file a motion before the assigned district judge seeking class certification in this action based 

on that information. Plaintiff’s counsel represented further that plaintiff does not wish to obtain 

default judgment against defendant at this juncture with respect to only her own claims. 

Accordingly, plaintiff’s counsel requested that plaintiff’s pending motion for default judgment be 

denied without prejudice to renewal after plaintiff has had an opportunity to obtain further 

information on the alleged putative class and seek class certification in this action.

Based on the foregoing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. The order to show cause filed on August 5, 2016 (ECF No. 9) is discharged with 

regard to plaintiff.

2. Plaintiff’s renewed motion for default judgment (ECF No. 10) is DENIED without 

prejudice to later renewal.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 14, 2016

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