ORDER REQUIRING DEFENDANT MOUNTAIN LION TO APPEAR ON OCTOBER 9, 2019 TO SHOW CAUSE WHY SANCTIONS SHOULD NOT BE ISSUED FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH COURT ORDER

(ECF No. 18)

STANLEY A. BOONE, Magistrate Judge.

On July 10, 2019, the Court issued an order setting a mandatory scheduling conference for September 24, 2019. (ECF No. 3.) Pursuant to the order setting the mandatory scheduling conference, the parties were ordered to file a joint scheduling report one full week prior to the scheduling conference. (ECF No. 3 at 2.) On September 1, 2019, a joint scheduling report was filed which contained responses from Plaintiff and Defendant Trans Union, LLC, however, the joint scheduling report signifies that the parties were unable to obtain responses from Defendant Mountain Lion Acquisitions, Inc. ("Mountain Lion"), and the report contained no information from Defendant Mountain Lion. (ECF No. 17.) On September 18, 2019, an order issued requiring Defendant Mountain Lion to show cause why sanctions should not issue for the failure to comply with the order setting the mandatory scheduling conference in this action. (ECF No. 18.) A written response to the order to show cause was to be filed by September 23, 2019. (Id.) Thereafter, the parties filed amended joint scheduling reports that appear to contain the required information from Defendant Mountain Lion. (ECF Nos. 19, 20.) However, Defendant Mountain Lion failed to file a direct response to the Court's September 18, 2019 order to show cause, and the amended joint scheduling reports did not discharge the order to show cause. On September 23, 2019, in a response to a stipulated motion to continue the scheduling conference, the Court reminded Defendant Mountain Lion that a direct response to the order to show cause was required but had not been filed. (ECF No. 22.) The September 23, 2019 deadline has now passed and Defendant Mountain Lion has failed to file a response to the order to show cause.

Local Rule 110 provides that "[f]ailure of counsel or of a party to comply with these Rules or with any order of the Court may be grounds for imposition by the Court of any and all sanctions . . . within the inherent power of the Court." The Court has the inherent power to control its docket and may, in the exercise of that power, impose sanctions where appropriate. Bautista v. Los Angeles County, 216 F.3d 837, 841 (9th Cir. 2000).

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendant Mountain Lion shall appear before United States Magistrate Judge Stanley A. Boone, at the United States Courthouse, 2500 Tulare St., Fresno, California, Courtroom 9, on Wednesday, October 9, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. to show cause why sanctions should not be imposed for the failure to comply with a court order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.