Vashisht-Rota
Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Aparna VASHISHT-ROTA, Case No.: 20-cv-0321-AGS-KSC Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART
DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO
v.
DECLARE PLAINTIFF A
HOWELL MANAGEMENT SERVICES, VEXATIOUS LITIGANT (ECF 330) et al., 7 Defendants.
Defendants seek sanctions against plaintiff Dr. Aparna Vashisht-Rota for “swamp[ing] the courts with lawsuits, meritless filings, and a flood of improper correspondence to endlessly relitigate losing arguments and torment Defendants.” (ECF 330-1, at 7.) They request both $300,000 in monetary sanctions and a pre-filing bar “to put an end to Plaintiff’s endless abuse of the judicial process.” (Id.) The Court concludes that a pre-filing bar, along with revoking Vashisht-Rota’s e-filing privileges, is both necessary and sufficient to address her ongoing misbehavior. Accordingly, the motion for monetary sanctions is denied. “The All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a), provides district courts with the inherent power to enter…