Doe v. Seatree et al

Filing 59

MINUTE ORDER denying plaintiff's 30 Motion for Order; directing parties to refrain from using pseudonyms when referring to any individual or entity. Authorized by Judge Thomas S. Zilly.(SWT)

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1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 6 7 JOHN DOE, 8 9 10 11 Plaintiff, v. C17-1572 TSZ SEATREE PLLC, JAMES J. NAMIKI, KING COUNTY, and JANE DOES, MINUTE ORDER Defendants. 12 13 JOHN DOE, Plaintiff, 14 15 16 C17-1681 TSZ v. SEATREE PLLC, and JAMES J. NAMIKI, Defendants. 17 18 The following Minute Order is made by direction of the Court, the Honorable 19 Thomas S. Zilly, United States District Judge: 20 21 22 (1) Plaintiff’s “Motion for an Order (i) Providing Facially-Different-Strings to Allow Easy Differentiation of Dale Cook in his Five (5) Different Respective Legal Entity Roles, and (ii) Restricting Use of Negative Pregnants in View of Dale Cook, in his Individual/Personal Capacity’s, Pro Se Status,” docket no. 30 in C17-1572, and “Motion for an Order (i) Providing Facially-Different-Strings to Allow Easy 23 MINUTE ORDER - 1 1 2 3 4 5 Differentiation of Actual Human Person Dale Cook and his Five (5) Separate Legal Entities/Roles, and (ii) Restricting Use of Negative Pregnants in View of Dale Cook, in his Individual/Personal Capacity, Pro Se Status,” docket no. 24 in C17-1681, are DENIED. The parties are DIRECTED to refrain from using pseudonyms when referring to any individual or entity and shall refer to any legal entity by that entity’s registered legal name, as depicted on the corporate filings in the state(s) in which that entity operates. 1 This is not an “unusual case” where the use of pseudonyms is appropriate, see, e.g., United States v. Doe, 488 F.3d 1154, 1156 n.1 (9th Cir. 2011), and the Court is satisfied that uniformly utilizing legal names will provide the Court and the parties with greater clarity and consistency going forward. 6 7 8 (2) record. The Clerk is directed to send a copy of this Minute Order to all counsel of Dated this 20th day of March, 2018. 9 William M. McCool Clerk 10 s/Karen Dews Deputy Clerk 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 1 To be clear, the parties need not refile any document filed prior to this Minute Order 22 and already containing the use of pseudonyms. 23 MINUTE ORDER - 2

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