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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

DALLAS DIVISION

MICHAEL J. QUILLING, as Receiver §

for Sardaukar Holdings, IBC and §

Bradley C. Stark, §

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Plaintiff, §

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v. § Civil Action No. 3:06-CV-0293-L

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3-D MARKETING, LLC, §

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Defendant. §

ORDER OF CONTEMPT

Before the court is the Receiver’s Amended Motion for Show Cause Order, filed June 5,

2007. United States Magistrate Judge Jeff Kaplan entered his findings and recommendation on the

motion on July 18, 2007. The magistrate judge recommended the court grant the motion, adjudge

Dean Allen Steeves and 3-D Marketing, LLC in civil contempt, and incarcerate Steeves until he and

3-D Marketing disgorge the sum of $150,000 to the Receiver as required by the Judgment in this

case.

On March 8, 2007, the court entered Judgment in favor of the Receiver against 3-D

Marketing in the amount of $150,000 and ordered that 3-D Marketing disgorge those funds to the

Receiver within thirty days. When 3-D Marketing failed to disgorge the funds, the Receiver moved

for a show cause order. The magistrate judge held two show cause hearings in this case. At the first

hearing, on May 11, 2007, counsel for 3-D Marketing appeared but Steeves failed to appear as

required. Counsel for 3-D Marketing did file a pleading stating that Steeves could not travel from

California to Dallas for the hearing due to a back injury, but no evidence substantiating his injury

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was ever filed with the court. Subsequently, the Receiver filed the amended motion now before the

court seeking a hearing requiring 3-D Marketing and Steeves to show cause why the company,

through Steeves, its principal agent, should not be held in civil contempt for violating the court’s

disgorgement order and judgment. A show cause hearing was scheduled for July 13, 2007 and the

court issued an order requiring Steeves to attend the hearing in person. Steeves was personally

served with the court’s order requiring his attendance at the hearing. Steeves failed to appear at the

July 13, 2007 show cause hearing, and the magistrate judge subsequently recommended that 3-D

Marketing and Steeves be held in civil contempt.

Neither 3-D Marketing nor Steeves filed formal objections to the magistrate judge’s finding

and recommendation. Steeves sent correspondence to the magistrate judge and the clerk of the court

arguing that this case had been closed. He also filed a document entitled “Notice of Liability,”

which was unfiled by the court. Steeves has repeatedly argued that the case is closed due to various

documents he has filed with the court, many of which have been unfiled as improper pleadings or

as matters unrelated to the pending case. 

The court has reviewed the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendation, the record, and

applicable law, and finds that the magistrate judge’s findings are correct and are therefore accepted

as those of the court. Accordingly, the court grants the Receiver’s Amended Motion for Show

Cause Order and adjudges 3-D Marketing, LLC and its principal agent, Dean Allen Steeves, in civil

contempt of this court for failing to comply with the Judgment entered on March 8, 2007 requiring

the company to disgorge the sum of $150,000 to the Receiver within 30 days. 

In light of its finding of contempt, the court orders and directs the United States

Marshal to take Dean Allen Steeves into custody and hold him at the nearest detention facility

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to the Dallas Division of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Dean Allen Steeves shall be held at such facility until such time as he and 3-D Marketing turn

over the sum of $150,000 to the Receiver. 3-D Marketing and Steeves may purge themselves

of contempt by complying with the court’s March 8, 2007 Judgment. 

The clerk of the court is directed to mail a copy of this order to Dean Allen Steeves at his

last known address by priority mail, and by certified mail, return receipt requested. The clerk of the

court is also directed to note on the docket the address to which notification was mailed. 

It is so ordered this 20th day of September, 2007.

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Sam A. Lindsay

United States District Judge

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