Brooke v. International Suites LLC ( 2021 )

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 THERESA BROOKE, a married woman No. 2:21-cv-0097 MCE DB dealing with her sole and separate claim, 12 13 Plaintiff, ORDER 14 v. 15 INTERNATIONAL SUITES LLC, a California limited liability company dba 16 Holiday Inn Express & Suites Lincoln, 17 Defendant. 18 19 On February 22, 2021, plaintiff filed a motion for default judgment and noticed the 20 motion for hearing before the undersigned on March 26, 2021, pursuant to Local Rule 302(c)(19). 21 (ECF No. 7.) Plaintiff, however, did not file proof of service of notice of the motion on the 22 defendant. Accordingly, on March 22, 2021, the undersigned issued an order noting that, while 23 service of a motion for default judgement on a defaulting party is not required, it is the 24 undersigned’s practice. (ECF No. 8.) The hearing of plaintiff’s motion was continued to May 14, 25 2021, and plaintiff was ordered to serve notice of the motion on the defendant. 26 On March 28, 2021, plaintiff filed a motion seeking to “be excused from serving the 27 Motion for Default Judgment papers,” on the defendant because plaintiff’s counsel emailed notice 28 to “‘Hooshang Fazeli” a “statutory agent and managing member” for defendant. (ECF No. 9 at 1; 1 | ECF No. 9-1 at 2.) Counsel was concerned that the undersigned “may not be aware” that “it is 2 | common for defendants in ADA cases to intentionally disregard federal court processes[.]” (ECF 3 | No. 1 at 1.) 4 Counsel is advised that Local Rule 302(c)(19) refers all motions for entry of default 5 || judgment to magistrate judges. As a result of this rule, and the frequency in which ADA actions 6 | resolve via default judgment, the undersigned is quite familiar with default judgment especially in 7 | ADA actions. See generally Pomponio v. Budwal, No. 2:19-cv-1006 TLN DB PS, 2020 WL 8 || 3497007 (E.D. Cal. June 29, 2020); Kraus v. Rattu, No. 2:18-cv-0627 MCE DB, 2020 WL 9 | 526105 (E.D. Cal. Feb. 3, 2020); Johnson v. Atwal, No. 2:17-cv-1546 MCE DB, 2020 WL 10 | 487414 (E.D. Cal. Jan. 30, 2020); Johnson v. Pizano, No. 2:17-cv-1655 TLN DB, 2019 WL 11 | 2499188 (E.D. Cal. June 17, 2019); Johnson v. Top Investment Property LLC, No. 2:15-cv-0181 12 | TLN DB, 2018 WL 3993419 (E.D. Cal. Aug. 17, 2018); Johnson v. Vuong, No. 2:14-cv-0709 13 | KJM DB, 2018 WL 3388456 (E.D. Cal. July 11, 2018); DIMAS O’CAMPO, Plaintiff, v. 14 | RAGHBIR SINGH GHOMAN, dba QUICK SHOP 2; GHOMAN’S PROPERTIES, LLC, 15 | Defendants., No. 2:08-cv-1624 KJM DB PS, 2017 WL 3225574 (E.D. Cal. July 31, 2017). 16 Indeed, it is from this understanding and experience that the undersigned developed the 17 | practice of requiring parties seeking default judgment to formally serve the defaulting party with 18 | notice of the motion. 19 Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff's March 28, 2021 motion to be 20 | excused (ECF No. 9) is denied. 21 | Dated: March 29, 2021 23 A ORAH BARNES UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 25 26 27 | DLB:6 8 DB/orders/orders.civil/brooke0097.req.den.ord