neither obama nor his attorney appeared at the january 26 hearing. this normally would result in a default order, but the challengers requested malihi to allow them to go ahead with the hearing and rule on "the merits of their arguments and evidence". taitz called eight witnesses (including herself), and presented seven exhibits in support of her claims that obama was not a natural-born citizen, has used multiple names, has multiple social security numbers, and used a fake birth certificate. taitz asked malihi to find obama in contempt for failing to appear.