Corporate Recoveries Inc v. Hill

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: January 7, 2025
• Docket: 2:24-cv-01746
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 The Honorable Barbara J. Rothstein

5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 6 AT SEATTLE

7 NO. 24-cv-1746-BJR CORPORATE RECOVERIES, INC., 8 ORDER RETURNING DOCUMENTS Plaintiff, AND EXTENDING TIME TO 9 ANSWER v. 10 DAVID HILL, et al., 11 Defendants. 12

13 The Court has received documents from Scott Carey, Registered Agent of Corporate 14 Recoveries, Inc.1 Mr. Carey is not an attorney who has been admitted to practice before this Court. 15 Corporate Recoveries has previously been advised that as a corporate entity, it is required by law 16 to be represented by an attorney admitted to practice before this Court. See ECF Nos. 21, 26. 17 In his letter to the Court, Mr. Carey states that Corporate Recoveries is close to having new 18 counsel appear to defend it against Defendants’ Counterclaim in this case and asks the Court to 19 accept its filings pending an appearance. However, Corporate Recoveries may not proceed pro se 20 as it is a corporation. See, e.g., Rowland v. Cal. Men’s Colony, Unit II Men’s Advisory Council, 506 21 U.S. 194, 201–02 (1993) (“It has been the law for the better part of two centuries . . . that a 22

23 1 The documents are attached to this Order as exhibits.

24 ORDER RETURNING DOCUMENTS AND EXTENDING TIME TO ANSWER 1 corporation may appear in the federal courts only through licensed counsel.”); In re America West 2 Airlines, 40 F.3d 1058, 1059 (9th Cir. 1994) (“Corporations and other unincorporated associations 3 must appear in court through an attorney.”); also see Local Rule 83.2(b)(4) (“A business entity, 4 except a sole proprietorship, must be represented by counsel.”). 5 The attached documents are not accepted as properly filed in this case and are being 6 returned. Under the circumstances, the Court hereby extends the time for Corporate Recoveries Inc. 7 to respond to Defendants’ Counterclaim, ECF No. 25. Its Answer is now due on or before February 8 7, 2025. 9 DATED this 7th day of January 2025. 10 A 11 B arbara Jacobs Rothstein 12 U.S. District Court Judge 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

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24 ORDER RETURNING DOCUMENTS AND EXTENDING TIME TO ANSWER