Boiling Crab Franchise Co LLC v. Global Seafoods North America LLC

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: February 18, 2025
• Docket: 2:24-cv-02122
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 2 AT SEATTLE 3 BOILING CRAB FRANCHISE CO., LLC, a California limited liability 4 company, 5 Plaintiff, C24-2122 TSZ 6 v. MINUTE ORDER 7 GLOBAL SEAFOODS NORTH AMERICA LLC, a Washington limited 8 liability company, 9 Defendant.

10 The following Minute Order is made by direction of the Court, the Honorable Thomas S. Zilly, United States District Judge: 11 (1) The motion to appear pro se, docket no. 6, is DENIED. “It is a 12 longstanding rule that ‘[c]orporations and other unincorporated associations must appear in court through an attorney.’” D-Beam Ltd. P’ship v. Roller Derby Skates, Inc., 366 13 F.3d 972, 973–74 (9th Cir. 2004) (quoting In re Am. W. Airlines, 40 F.3d 1058, 1059 (9th Cir. 1994)). Accordingly, Defendant Global Seafoods North America, LLC cannot 14 appear “pro se”. The three other pending motions, docket nos. 5, 14, and 15, are STRICKEN AS INVALID. See D-Beam Ltd. P’ship, 40 F.3d at 1059 n.1 (concluding 15 that the plaintiff’s “‘pro se pleadings’ are ‘not even valid’” where the plaintiff was a limited partnership). Defendant must appear in this case through an attorney within 30 16 days of this Minute Order. 17 (2) The Clerk is directed to send a copy of this Minute Order to all counsel of record and Oleg Nikitenko, Defendant’s registered agent. See Motion at 2 (docket no. 6). 18 Dated this 18th day of February, 2025. 19 20 Ravi Subramanian Clerk 21 s/Laurie Cuaresma 22 Deputy Clerk