Pola

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Sai Pola, No. 2:19-cv-01154-KJM-CSK Plaintiff, ORDER v. Mahender Rao and Srinivas Rao, 1S Defendants. 16 The court held a final pretrial conference for this case on July 11, 2024, during which it 18 ordered the parties to file within seven days a joint filing identifying the parties’ disputed and 19 undisputed facts, after which the matter would be submitted and a written Final Pretrial Order would issue. See Hr’g Mins., ECF No. 51.' The court received a status report filed by plaintiff only. See Status R., ECF No. 52. Plaintiff’s counsel, Brian R. Katz, filed a signed declaration 22 with the status report. See Katz Decl., ECF No. 52 at 6-7. Despite the best efforts of Mr. Katz to engage defense counsel, Vani Moodley, in drafting a joint status report, Mr. Katz says he did not 24 receive a response from defense counsel in order to file a joint status report by the court…