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Parties Involved:
Katherine Melendez Lopez
Respondent
Naoemi Salinas
Petitioner
United States of America
Petitioner

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Benjamin B. Wagner

United States Attorney

BENJAMIN E. HALL

Assistant United States Attorney

United States Courthouse

2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4401

Fresno, California 93721

Telephone: (559) 497-4000

Facsimile: (559) 497-4099

Attorneys for Petitioners 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and

NAOEMI SALINAS, Revenue Agent,

Internal Revenue Service

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and )

NAOEMI SALINAS, Revenue )

Officer, Internal Revenue )

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Petitioners, )

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KATHERINE MELENDEZ LOPEZ, )

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Respondent. )

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ORDER RE: CONTEMPT

Date: April 19, 2010

Time: 10 a.m.

Ctrm: 3

Hon. Oliver W. Wanger

This matter came before the Court on April 19, 2010, upon an

Order to Show Cause why Respondent, KATHERINE MELENDEZ LOPEZ,

should not be adjudged in contempt of the Court for the reasons

set forth in the Magistrate Judge’s Certification of Facts

Concerning Petition Re: Contempt of Order Filed March 11, 2009;

Order Setting the Matter Before the District Judge for Hearing

and Judgment Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(e)(6)(B) (Doc. 37). 

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Benjamin E. Hall, Assistant United States Attorney, appeared on

behalf of Petitioners, United States of America and Naoemi

Salinas, Revenue Agent, who was present in the courtroom. 

Respondent failed to appear, despite having been personally

served on March 18, 2010, with the Order requiring her to appear 

(see Certificate of Service, Doc. 41). Respondent also failed to

file with the Court any opposition to Petitioner’s request that

Respondent be held in contempt.

The Court finds that Respondent has failed and refused to

obey a definite and specific Order of this Court, which required

Respondent to comply with an Internal Revenue Service Summons. 

Accordingly,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED as follows:

1. Respondent, KATHERINE MELENDEZ LOPEZ, is adjudged in

civil contempt of this Court.

2. A bench warrant shall be issued, directing the United

States Marshals Service to take Respondent into custody.

3. Respondent shall be incarcerated until she complies

fully with the Court’s Order filed March 11, 2009, and produces

the documents and testimony identified in the IRS Summons issued

December 6, 2007.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 21, 2010 /s/ Oliver W. Wanger 

emm0d6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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