Board of Trustees of the Laborers Health and Welfare Trust Fund for Northern California v. Stump & Sons, Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE Case No. 20-cv-01791-JSC
LABORERS HEALTH AND WELFARE
8 TRUST FUND FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, et al., ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE TO 9 DEFENDANT Plaintiffs, 10 v. 11
STUMP & SONS, INC.,
12 Defendant. 13 14 Plaintiffs Board of Trustees of the Laborers Health and Welfare Trust Fund for Northern 15 California, et al., filed this ERISA action against Stump & Sons, Inc., alleging breach of a 16 collective bargaining agreement that required Stump & Sons to pay monthly employee fringe 17 benefit contributions to the trust funds administered by Plaintiffs. (Dkt. No. 1.) On May 21, 2020, 18 Defendant filed an answer to the complaint pro se though Ms. Joann Morgan who indicates that 19 Defendant cannot afford an attorney. (Dkt. No. 12 at 6-7.) However, a corporation cannot be 20 represented by a non-attorney. See Civ. L.R. 3-9(b) (“A corporation, unincorporated association, 21 partnership or other such entity may appear only through a member of the bar of this Court.”);…