Opinion
No. C-10-01781 MMC
08-05-2011
MOHAMED ABOKASEM, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ROYAL INDIAN RAJ INTERNATIONAL CORP., et al., Defendants
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY
DEFENDANTS SHOULD NOT BE HELD
IN CONTEMPT
On August 5, 2011, defendants Royal Indian Raj International Corp., Royal Indian Raj International Holdings Corp., Royal Indian Raj International Real Estate Fund Ltd., Royal Garden Villas Resort Corp., Manoj C. Benjamin, and Anjula Benjamin (collectively, "RIRIC defendants") failed to appear as ordered at a regularly scheduled case management conference in the above-titled action. Plaintiffs appeared as ordered.
Accordingly, each of the RIRIC defendants is hereby ORDERED TO SHOW CAUSE in writing, by sworn declaration under penalty of perjury, filed no later than August 19, 2011, why such defendant should not be held in contempt and sanctioned for such defendant's failure to appear, and why the corporate RIRIC defendants' answers should not be stricken, and default entered against them, for their failure to retain new counsel. See Rowland v. Cal. Men's Colony, 506 U.S. 194, 202 (1993) (holding corporate entities may only appear by counsel); Emp. Painters' Trust v. Ethan Enter., Inc., 480 F.3d 993, 998 (9th Cir. 2007) (upholding default judgment entered against corporation for failure to appear through counsel in violation of district court's local rule); Civil L.R. 3-9(b) (providing corporations "may appear only through a member of the bar of this Court").
IT IS SO ORDERED.
MAXINE M. CHESNEY
United States District Judge