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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Civil Rights Act

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

MICHAEL BOYD,

Plaintiff,

v.

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 15-cv-00405-BLF 

ORDER (1) GRANTING REQUEST OF 

DEFENDANTS IAN RICE AND BEN 

RICE FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO 

FILE MOTION TO STRIKE UNDER 

CALIFORNIA CIVIL PROCEDURE 

CODE § 425.16; AND (2) GRANTING 

PLAINTIFF’S REQUEST FOR 

EXTENSION OF TIME TO RESPOND 

TO THE JOINDER OF DEFENDANTS 

IAN RICE AND BEN RICE IN THE 

COUNTY DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO 

DISMISS

[Re: ECF 108, 114]

Defendants Ian Rice and Ben Rice seek to join in the County Defendants’ pending motion 

to dismiss and they also request an extension of the deadline to file a motion to strike under 

California Civil Procedure Code § 425.16. The same document, entitled “Defendants Ian and Ben 

Rice’s Joinder in County Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss ‘Amended Second Amended 

Complaint’; Request for Order Extending Time for Filing Motion to Strike under California Code 

of Civil Procedure § 425.16,” appears to have been filed twice at both ECF 107 and ECF 108, with 

the docket entry at ECF 107 indicating that ECF 108 is the proper entry. On January 29, 2016, 

Plaintiff filed a Request for Extension of Time to File Responses, indicating that he had not yet 

been served with a copy of ECF 108.

Defendants’ request for an extension of time to file a motion to strike under § 425.16 is 

GRANTED. That deadline is extended to sixty days after the Court’s ruling on the pending 

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motions to dismiss. See Cal. Civ. P. Code § 425.16(f) (motion to strike “may be filed within 60 

days of the service of the complaint or, in the court’s discretion, at any later time upon terms it 

deems proper”).

Plaintiff’s request for an extension of time to respond to the joinder of Defendants Ian Rice 

and Ben Rice in the County Defendants’ motion to dismiss is GRANTED. Plaintiff is granted 

until February 19, 2016 to respond to the joinder. The Court notes that Plaintiff’s request 

indicates that he will be responding to ECF 107. However, as discussed above, it appears from the 

docket that ECF 107 is superseded by ECF 108. Accordingly, Plaintiff need not respond to ECF 

107 but he must respond to ECF 108. Although the Court presumes that Plaintiff now has been 

served with ECF 108, in an excess of caution the Court hereby DIRECTS THE CLERK to mail a 

copy of ECF 108 to Plaintiff along with this order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 3, 2016

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BETH LABSON FREEMAN

United States District Judge

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