Smith v. County of Sacramento

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CLIFFORD SMITH, KRISTINA No. 2:19–cv–01426–TLN–CKD

FLESHMAN,

13 Plaintiffs, ORDER TO PLAINTIFFS’ COUNSEL TO v.

APPEAR ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2021

AT 10:00 A.M.

COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO, et al., 16 Defendants.

18 By order filed June 4, 2021, monetary sanctions in the amount of $500 were imposed against plaintiffs’ counsel, Joseph Barnet Weinberger, personally. The sanctions were to be paid to the Clerk of the Court within 15 days. (ECF No. 32.) Mr. Weinberger was directed to send a copy of the order imposing sanctions to his clients and to notify the court when he had done so. Counsel has not paid the sanctions and has not filed the ordered notice. This omission follows several other failures by plaintiffs’ counsel in this case. Accordingly, Mr. Weinberger will be ordered to appear at a Zoom hearing on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 to show cause why additional sanctions should not be imposed and why he should not be reported to the California State Bar for his conduct…