Johnson v. Reliant Property Mgt., Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Kaitlyn Johnson, No. 2:23-cv-01817-KJM-CKD Plaintiff, ORDER v. Reliant Property Management, Inc., 1S Defendant. 16 17 Plaintiff Kaitlyn Johnson moves to remand this case to state court. See Mot. Remand, ECF No. 7. Defendant Reliant Property Management, Inc. moves to vacate the hearing date for 20 the motion to remand because plaintiff did not meet and confer before filing the motion. Mot. Vacate, ECF No. 10. For the reasons below, the court vacates the motion hearing for failure to meet and confer. This court’s standing order requires attorneys to meet and confer with one another before 24 they file motions. See Standing Order at 3, ECF No. 6-1; Mollica v. County of Sacramento, No. 19-2017, 2022 WL 15053335, at *1 (E.D. Cal. Oct. 26, 2022). Attorneys who intend to file motions must “discuss thoroughly the substance of the contemplated motion and any potential 27 …