Corcoran v. Sustainable Living Innovations Inc

Opinion

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3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 6 AT SEATTLE 7 STEVE CORCORAN and DEBBIE DOUEZ, individually and the marital 8 community comprised thereof, 9 Plaintiff, C23-1252 TSZ 10 v. MINUTE ORDER 11 SUSTAINABLE LIVING INNOVATIONS, INC., 12 Defendant. 13

14 The following Minute Order is made by direction of the Court, the Honorable Thomas S. Zilly, United States District Judge: 15 (1) The motion to permit withdrawal of counsel for Defendant Sustainable Living Innovations, Inc., docket no. 16, is GRANTED. Jessica B. Jensen, Kari I. Lester, 16 and Ogden Murphy Wallace, P.L.L.C. are granted leave to withdraw effective immediately. 17

(2) Because Defendant is a corporation, Defendant may not represent itself and 18 may appear only through an attorney. E.g., United States v. High Country Broadcasting Co., 3 F.3d 1244, 1245 (9th Cir. 1993). Failure of a corporate defendant to secure 19 counsel constitutes grounds for entering default against the corporation. See Local Civil Rule 83.2(b)(4). Defendant is ORDERED to retain new counsel and have the new 20 counsel file a notice of appearance no later than February 16, 2024.

21 (3) Plaintiffs’ motion to dismiss and for partial summary judgment, docket no. 14, is RENOTED to March 8, 2024. Defendant’s new counsel may file a supplemental 22 1 response to Plaintiffs’ motion no later than March 4, 2024. Plaintiffs may file a supplemental reply no later than the new noting date. 2 (4) The Clerk is directed to send a copy of this Minute Order to all counsel of 3 record. 4 Dated this 19th day of January, 2024. 5 Ravi Subramanian Clerk 6 s/Laurie Cuaresma 7 Deputy Clerk 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22