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Parties Involved:
California State Grange
Counter Claimant
National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry
Counter Defendant

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[PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT'S REQUEST FOR TELEPHONIC APPEARANCE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO DIVISION

THE NATIONAL GRANGE OF THE 

ORDER OF PATRONS OF 

HUSBANDRY, a District of Columbia 

nonprofit corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

CALIFORNIA STATE GRANGE, a 

California corporation,

Defendant.

Case No. 2:14-cv-00676-WBS-DAD

ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT'S 

REQUEST FOR TO APPEAR 

TELEPHONICALLY

CALIFORNIA STATE GRANGE, a 

California corporation,

Counter-Claimant,

v.

THE GRANGE OF THE STATE OF 

CALIFORNIA'S ORDER OF 

PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY, 

CHARTERED,

Counter-Defendant.

The court has received defendant California State Grange's request to allow 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT'S REQUEST FOR TELEPHONIC APPEARANCE

counsel Jenifer C. Wallis to appeartelephonically at the August 17, 2015 Final Pretrial 

Conference and Status Conference. Because the Final Pretrial Conference is 

tantamount to the first day of trial, it is not the practice of this court to permit 

telephonic appearance at such conference. See Rule 16(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure, which provides that the conference “must be attended by at least one 

attorney who will conduct the trial for each party . . .” There has been no showing that 

a personal appearance in this case would cause such hardship as to justify an exception 

to that practice.

The request to appear telephonically at the Final Pretrial Conference is therefore 

DENIED.

Dated: August 14, 2015

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