📧 to McShane: "No good cause is shown"

Plaintiff opposes Ms. White's request to require all party conferrals to be conducted by email.

No good cause is shown. Ms. White's stated reason — wanting an "accurate record" of conversations — identifies no specific incident from this case's phone or personal conferrals that this request would remedy. She has not raised any such concern with me directly; this email is the first I've heard of the request, sent to me and the Court simultaneously rather than conferred beforehand.

The request is also one-sided in its burden. LR 7-1(a)(1)(A) requires "a good faith effort through personal or telephone conferences" before any motion. An order barring that contact would leave both parties unable to satisfy the certification LR 7-1(a) itself demands of any future motion — mine included — and as the pro se party without staff, that burden falls on me alone. The record already shows personal and telephone conferrals with your office resolving disputes efficiently, including the July 20, 2026 call regarding the OSP/LAC subpoenas. If Ms. White wants a written record of a call, she is free to follow it with an email summary; nothing requires foreclosing the call itself.

Plaintiff requests the Court deny this request.