Jamie Lee Saunders v. Albertsons/Safeway, LLC, and United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local #7

Summary

The United States District Court for the District of Colorado denied Plaintiff Jamie Lee Saunders’s motion to vacate the order permitting her former attorney to withdraw. The court also declined to appoint pro bono counsel, order a case-file accounting or specified document production, or grant requested financial and protective relief.

Holdings

1. The court denied the request to vacate the withdrawal order and appoint pro bono counsel because Plaintiff identified no basis to reconsider the withdrawal order and did not show that the legal issues were sufficiently complex to justify appointed counsel.
2. The court denied the request because Plaintiff did not identify specific missing materials or establish an entitlement to an accounting of the case file's contents.
3. The court denied the requests because Plaintiff did not explain with specificity why a court-ordered financial accounting was necessary or justified, how former counsel might retaliate, or what protective relief she sought.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the court should vacate the order permitting Plaintiff's former attorney to withdraw and appoint pro bono counsel.
2. Whether Plaintiff was entitled to an order requiring former counsel to provide a specific accounting or additional materials from her case file.
3. Whether Plaintiff was entitled to a financial accounting or protective relief against alleged retaliation or procedural disadvantage by former counsel.

Disposition

denied