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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

WILLIAM PATRICK GARCIA, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

T. PADGETT, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:21-cv-0875 AC P 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff has filed two requests asking the court to permit him to file pleadings in excess of 

twenty-five-pages. ECF Nos. 10, 12. Specifically, he is asking for permission to file a thirty-sixpage amended complaint. ECF No. 10 at 2; ECF No. 12 at 2. His current complaint is twentyseven pages in length, and it has eighty-one pages of attachments. See generally ECF No. 1. 

 The motions will be denied. The standing orders for this chambers limit the page number 

of initial pleadings to twenty. Despite this fact, and without having been given permission to do 

so, plaintiff has already exceeded that page limit with a twenty-seven-page pleading. In addition, 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8 requires that pleadings only contain “a short and plain 

statement of the claim” which shows that the pleader is entitled to relief.1

 Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2). 

For these reasons, both motions will be denied. 

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 This court’s Civil Rights Complaint By A Prisoner form, which plaintiff did not use, is only six 

pages in length. Although the form may be supplemented with additional pages, and does not 

itself establish any page limit, it illustrates what is required to present a “short and plain statement 

of the claim.” 

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 Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff’s motions to file pleadings in 

excess of twenty-five pages (ECF Nos. 10, 12) are DENIED. 

DATED: March 24, 2023 

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