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Order To Show Cause

The judge issued an order for the plaintiff to show cause for failing to file an opposition to the defendant's motion to dismiss by the deadline. Instead of the required opposition, the plaintiff filed an affidavit from a paralegal complaining about treatment from a clerk's office employee, as well as blank pages with botanical drawings. The judge found the affidavit frivolous and the blank pages either a joke or mistake. The plaintiff is given until February 26th to re-file the required opposition points or show cause for why the motion to dismiss should not be granted.

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Order To Show Cause

The judge issued an order for the plaintiff to show cause for failing to file an opposition to the defendant's motion to dismiss by the deadline. Instead of the required opposition, the plaintiff filed an affidavit from a paralegal complaining about treatment from a clerk's office employee, as well as blank pages with botanical drawings. The judge found the affidavit frivolous and the blank pages either a joke or mistake. The plaintiff is given until February 26th to re-file the required opposition points or show cause for why the motion to dismiss should not be granted.

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Case 1:08-cv-02254-JR Document 14 Filed 02/25/2009 Page 1 of 2

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT


FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

GREGORY S. HOLLISTER, :
:
Plaintiff, :
:
v. : Civil Action No. 08-2254 (JR)
:
BARRY SOETORO, et al., :
:
Defendants. :

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Instead of the opposition plaintiff was ordered to file

by 2/13/09 (or defendants' motion to dismiss would be granted as

conceded, see [#10]), what plaintiff filed was (a) the affidavit

of a paralegal (who works in the office of a Pennsylvania lawyer

who has not been admitted to practice in this Court), complaining

about her treatment by an employee of the Clerk's Office, and

(b) many blank pages, decorated only by what appear to be

botanical drawings and the illegible photocopy of an Hawaiian

certificate of live birth. (a) The affidavit was apparently

intended as a response to my earlier observation that plaintiff's

motion to file interpleader was frivolous, see [#2], [#10], the

argument being, "Maureen Higgins made me do it." What was

frivolous about the motion, however, was not the fact that it was

filed, but the suggestion that "duties" could be filed in the

registry of this court. (b) The blank pages were either

somebody's idea of a joke (in which case I don't get it) or a

mistake. If the latter, plaintiffs have until 5:00 pm EST on


Case 1:08-cv-02254-JR Document 14 Filed 02/25/2009 Page 2 of 2

2/26/09 to correct it, by re-filing their points and authorities

in opposition to the pending motion to dismiss (in the .pdf

format required by the Court's CM/EDF system), or otherwise to

show cause why that motion should not now be granted as conceded.

It is SO ORDERED.

JAMES ROBERTSON
United States District Judge

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