Stanford

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ATHENA STANFORD, Case No. 20-cv-06382-VC

Plaintiff, ORDER SANCTIONING PLAINTIFF'S v. COUNSEL

GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF

AMERICA, et al., Defendants.

Janine Ogando, counsel for the plaintiff, is sanctioned $500 for her repeated failure to comply with court orders, and her failure to adequately respond to the order to show cause to explain these failures. On October 25, the Court issued an order directing Ogando to refile the exhibits attached to the First Amended Complaint so that the exhibits complied with the Court’s standing order for civil cases. See Dkt. No. 24. After Ogando failed to refile the exhibits, the Court ordered her to show cause why she should not be sanctioned for her failure to do this along with her presentation of objectively frivolous arguments in support of the motion to remand. See Dkt. No. 32. In response, Ogando asserted, as relevant here, that her failure to refile exhibits was an “inadvertent mistake” because she did not see the order directing her to refile, and that although she received an email with the order attached, she had not read…