Whitaker

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 BRIAN WHITAKER, Case No. 21-cv-03039-HSG (SK)

Plaintiff,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

v.

ZAHRA NOWROUZI, et al., Defendants.

Federal courts “have an independent obligation to determine whether subject-matter jurisdiction exists, even in the absence of a challenge from any party.” Arbaugh v. Y&H Corp., 546 U.S. 500, 514 (2006). Consistent with this independent obligation, Plaintiff Brian Whitaker is HEREBY ORDERED to Show Cause (“OSC”) in writing why the undersigned should not prepare a report and recommendation that this case should be dismissed for lack of Article III standing. In People v. Potter Handy LLP, Case No. CGC-22-599079, 2022 WL 1102496 (Cal. Super. Ct. 2022), the District Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco and the District Attorney for the County of Los Angeles allege that Plaintiff’s Counsel files “thousands of boilerplate, cut-and-paste federal-court lawsuits that falsely assert its clients have standing under …