Rovens

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division RIVINGTON PARTNERS, LLC, Case No. 21-cv-06151-LB

Plaintiff, ORDER REGARDING DEATH OF THE

DEFENDANT

v. Re: ECF No. 46 LOUIS B. ROVENS, Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION The plaintiff claims that the defendant Louis Rovens defrauded it, in violation of California law.1 Mr. Rovens recently died, and Jeffrey White (Mr. Rovens’s guardian ad litem and the successor co- trustee of Mr. Rovens’s living trust) thus filed a suggestion of death pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 25(a)(1), attaching Mr. Rovens’s death certificate.2 The court previously asked the parties to identify their next steps in light of Mr. Rovens’s death.3 The court also held a case-management conference on June 23, 2022. 24

1 Am. Compl. – ECF No. 26 at 2 (¶¶ 1–5). Citations refer to material in the Electronic Case File (ECF); pinpoint citations are to the ECF-generated page numbers at the top of…