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Parties Involved:
Nancy A. Berryhill
Defendant
Clara McConville
Plaintiff
Andrew Saul
Defendant

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CLARA MCCONVILLE,

Plaintiff,

v.

ANDREW SAUL,

Defendant. 1

Case No. 17-cv-06303-HSG 

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Plaintiff filed this Social Security review action on October 31, 2017. Dkt. No. 1. Since 

the filing of this action, the Court has not received any further communications from Plaintiff. 

Plaintiff did not file her motion for summary judgment by the specified deadline and did not 

respond to the Court’s multiple orders directing her to file a consent or declination to proceed 

before a magistrate judge. See Dkt. Nos. 10, 11.

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b) provides that where a “plaintiff fails to prosecute or 

to comply with these rules or a court order, a defendant may move to dismiss the action or any 

claim against it.” A defendant need not file a motion in order for a district court to dismiss a case 

under Rule 41(b), given the Supreme Court’s statement that “[t]he authority of a court to dismiss 

sua sponte for lack of prosecution has generally been considered an ‘inherent power,’ governed 

not by rule or statute but by the control necessarily vested in courts to manage their own affairs[.]” 

See Link v. Wabash R. Co., 370 U.S. 626, 630–31 (1962). 

Accordingly, Plaintiff is ORDERED TO SHOW CAUSE why this case should not be 

dismissed without prejudice for failure to prosecute. Plaintiff shall file a statement of no more 

 

1 Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 25(d), the Court substitutes Andrew Saul, current 

Commissioner of Social Security, for Nancy A. Berryhill. 

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than two pages by September 24, 2019.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:

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HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR.

United States District Judge

9/11/2019

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