Johnson v. GTD Ventures, LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SCOTT JOHNSON, Case No. 21-cv-07525-TSH
Plaintiff,
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
v.
GTD VENTURES, LLC, et al., Defendants.
12 On June 29, 2022, the Court granted David Sidran’s motion to withdraw as counsel for Defendant Visible Vibrations. ECF No. 36. As Visible is a corporation and can only appear through licensed counsel, the Court directed Visible to file substitution of counsel by July 29, 2022. Id.; see also Civ. L.R. 3-9(b); Rowland v. Cal. Men’s Colony, Unit II Men’s Advisory Council, 506 U.S. 194, 202 (1993) (“It has been the law for the better part of two centuries . . . that a corporation may appear in the federal courts only through licensed counsel.”) (citations omitted); Bourbeau v. Cognitive Code Corp., 693 F. App’x 499, 503 (9th Cir. 2017) (affirming district court’s dismissal based on corporation’s failure to retain counsel). The Court warned Visible that failure to retain substitute counsel could result in the entry of default…