ORDER AND ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

KENDALL J. NEWMAN, Magistrate Judge.

On June 13, 2013, the court conducted a status conference in this matter.1 Because all parties expressed an interest in potential alternative dispute resolution prior to a hearing on plaintiff's motion for an order of contempt and motion for leave to amend its complaint, the court ordered the parties to submit a joint statement regarding various issues related to such alternative dispute resolution within seven (7) days. (ECF No. 54.)

On June 20, 2013, plaintiff and the counterdefendants filed a statement indicating that the parties were unable to agree as to alternative dispute resolution, but that plaintiff and counterdefendants remained interested in a settlement conference before the undersigned, with a waiver of any disqualification by virtue of the undersigned also acting as the assigned trial judge. (ECF No. 55.) Defendants did not join in the statement filed by plaintiff and counterdefendants, nor did they file their own statement in response to the court's order. According to the statement filed by plaintiff and counterdefendants, defendant's counsel had represented to plaintiff's counsel earlier that day that defendants' counsel was to withdraw from the case effective June 20, 2013. (ECF No. 55.)2

That same day, the court issued a minute order directing defendants' counsel or defendants themselves to file, no later than Monday June 24, 2013, by 12:00 p.m., a statement indicating whether they agree to an early settlement conference with the undersigned, simultaneously agreeing to waive any disqualification by virtue of the undersigned also acting as the assigned trial judge. The court advised defendants that in the absence of such a filed statement, the hearing and briefing on the pending motions would proceed as noticed and according to the Local Rules. (ECF No. 56.) Neither defendants' counsel nor defendants themselves filed any response to that minute order.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. No early settlement conference in this matter will be scheduled at this time.

2. The July 11, 2013 hearing on plaintiff's motion for contempt and motion for leave to amend the operative complaint (ECF Nos. 45, 50) is confirmed. In accordance with the Local Rules, any opposition to the motions shall be filed no later than June 27, 2013, with any reply due by July 4, 2013. Failure to file a timely opposition to the motions may result in the imposition of any appropriate sanctions and/or may be deemed as a statement of non-opposition to the pending motions.

3. Within seven (7) days of this order, defendants' counsel shall show cause why monetary sanctions should not be imposed for his failure to participate in the drafting/filing of a joint statement regarding alternative dispute resolution in accordance with the court's June 13, 2013 minute order, and his failure to respond to the court's subsequent June 20, 2013 minute order. Even assuming that no agreement on alternative dispute resolution could be reached, defendants' counsel's response should focus on the reasons why he did not report this to the court, but instead entirely failed to respond to the court's orders.

IT IS SO ORDERED.