Szy Holdings, LLC; Farfromboringpromotions.com, LLC v. Rico Garcia; Hamsa Holdings, LLC

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 25-1123
SZY HOLDINGS, LLC; FARFROMBORINGPROMOTIONS.COM, LLC,
Plaintiffs - Appellees,
v.
RICO GARCIA; HAMSA HOLDINGS, LLC,
Defendants - Appellants.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at
Alexandria. Michael Stefan Nachmanoff, District Judge. (1:20-cv-01475-MSN-JFA)
Submitted: July 21, 2025 Decided: October 9, 2025
Before WYNN, RICHARDSON, and BENJAMIN, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed in part and affirmed in part by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Rico Garcia, Appellant Pro Se. Robert C. Gill, II, Washington, D.C., Daniel M. Moore,
SAUL EWING LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Rico Garcia and Hamsa Holdings, LLC, (“Appellants”) noted an appeal from the
district court’s order determining that they cannot invoke the arbitration clause in an
agreement between Botani Labs, LLC, and IPF Sourcing to compel SZY Holdings, LLC,
and FarFromBoringPromotions.com, LLC (“Appellees”), to submit their claims to
arbitration. Appellants have moved for sanctions against their former attorney and to strike
Appellees’ informal response brief. Christina Stone, purporting to be “next friend” of
Garcia, has filed a motion to stay the appeal. We deny all three pending motions.
In a February 21, 2025, notice, this court informed Appellants that a corporation
may appear in this court only through a licensed attorney. The notice directed Appellants
to “provid[e] us with the name, address, and phone number of counsel who will represent
the corporation on appeal” and admonished that “the corporation will not be considered a
party to the appeal” if Appellants failed to file the status of counsel form by March 3, 2025.
Appellants failed to provide this court notice of new counsel, and no counsel has entered
an appearance on behalf of Hamsa Holdings, LLC. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal as
to Hamsa Holdings. See Rowland v. Cal. Men’s Colony, 506 U.S. 194, 201-02 (1993) (“It
has been the law for the better part of two centuries, . . . that a corporation may appear in
the federal courts only through licensed counsel.”).
As to Garcia’s appeal, we have reviewed the record and the arguments presented on
appeal, and we find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s order.
SZY Holdings, LLC v. Garcia, No. 1:20-cv-01475-MSN-JFA (E.D. Va. filed Jan. 6, 2025
& entered Jan. 8, 2025). We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal

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contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would
not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED IN PART,
AFFIRMED IN PART

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