Greenspan

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 AARON JACOB GREENSPAN, Case No. 20-cv-03426-JD

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE DEFAULT AND CIVILITY

v. 8 Re: Dkt. Nos. 44, 45, 51 OMAR QAZI, et al., Defendants.

11 From the start, this litigation has had an unusually high degree of friction between the parties, particularly pro se plaintiff Greenspan and defendant Qazi. This has led to a flood of entirely unnecessary disputes over technical issues of service and default in connection with the complaint, among other matters. See, e.g., Dkt. Nos. 15, 26, 44, 45, 51. The parties’ inability to work out an agreement on these simple procedural matters is an unacceptable departure from the civility and professionalism required of all litigants, whether pro se or represented by counsel, who appear in this District. This order resolves the default issues, and sets a course for avoiding further misuse of time, money, and judicial resources in this case. We have a strong policy in favor of deciding cases on the merits and not on procedural 21 …