(PS) Anenson v. Vacaville Unified School District

BACKGROUND

23 On October 25, 2022, the Court dismissed Plaintiffs’ First Amended Complaint. 24 (ECF No. 62.) Plaintiffs were granted leave to amend within 20 days. (Id.) Plaintiffs 25 were advised that failure to file an amended complaint would result in dismissal of the 26 action with prejudice. (Id.) 27 Plaintiffs never filed an amended complaint. Instead, Plaintiffs’ attorney moved 28 1 to withdraw from the case on November 8, 2022. (ECF No. 63.) The Motion to 2 Withdraw was granted on December 20, 2022, and the Court stayed the action for 3 120 days to permit Plaintiffs to retain new counsel.1 (ECF No. 83.) The stay was lifted 4 on June 13, 2023, over 170 days later. (ECF No. 93.) 5 On July 19, 2023, Defendants moved to dismiss the action for lack of 6 prosecution as Plaintiffs had neither retained new counsel nor filed an amended 7 complaint. (ECF No. 96.) Plaintiffs failed to timely oppose the motion. On August 29, 8 2023, the Magistrate Judge assigned to this matter granted Plaintiffs an extension to 9 oppose the motion by October 10, 2023. (ECF No. 101.) Plaintiffs still failed to 10 oppose. 11 Accordingly, on October 31, 2023, the…