Wescott

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CARL A. WESCOTT, Plaintiff, No. C 22-04651 WHA

v.

CHARLES DUNN, CHRISTOPHER ORDER DISMISSING ACTION FOR MERCER, and MERIDIAN LACK OF PROSECUTION DEVELOPMENT GROUP, LLC, Defendants.

16 This action was filed in August 2022. No parties appeared for the initial case management conference on May 11, 2023, which led to an order to show cause why this action should not be dismissed for lack of prosecution (Dkt. No. 25). That order set a response deadline of June 1, 2023, which has come and gone without a response. The order to show cause also set a hearing for July 13, 2023. At the scheduled time for that hearing on that date, this action was called first. Just like the initial case management conference, no party was present. The action was called again at the end of an hour of proceedings in the rest of the calendar. Again, no one was present. The last activity from plaintiff is a letter dated February 9, 2023,…