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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 Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ARTHUR PARNELL, III,

Plaintiff,

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A. TUCKER, et al.,

Defendants. _______________________________________

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No. 06-7662 SBA (PR)

ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS'

SECOND REQUEST FOR AN

EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE A

DISPOSITIVE MOTION

Pursuant to the Court's Order of August 27, 2009, Defendant's motion for summary

judgment was due by December 7, 2009. (Docket 10.) The Order specified that any requests for

an extension of time must be filed at least 15 days before the filing is due. (Id. at 7.) On

December 7, 2009, the same date that its motion was due, Defendants filed request for a 45 day

extension of time. Despite the fact that Defendants' request for an extension of time was itself

untimely, the Court granted Defendant a 30 day extension, meaning that Defendants' motion was

due by January 6, 2010. (Docket 21.) 

Defendants failed to file their motion by the January 6, 2010 deadline. Instead, on

January 15, 2010, nine days after the motion was due, Defendants filed Defendant's Second

Request for Extension of Time to File Dispositive Motion (Docket 22) to extend their filing

deadline to January 21, 2010. Defendants claim that they mistakenly calendared the due date for

the summary judgment motion as January 21, 2010, which is the date they requested in their first

request for extension of time. (Young Decl. ¶ 4.)

Defendants have failed to establish good cause for their second request for an extension

of time. First, the request is untimely, as it was not filed at least 15 days prior to the due date for

the motion. Second, Defendants' neglect is not excusable. Defense counsel merely assumed that

the Court would grant him the full 45 days that he had sought in his first request, which itself was

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untimely filed. The predicament that Defendants find themselves in is entirely of their own

making. Accordingly,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT Defendant's Second Request for Extension of Time

to File Dispositive Motion is DENIED. If Defendants fail to file their motion for summary

judgment forthwith, the Court may consider the imposition of monetary sanctions. 

This Order terminates Docket no. 22.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: 1/15/10 

SAUNDRA BROWN ARMSTRONG

United States District Judge

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ARTHUR PARNELL III,

Plaintiff,

 v.

A. TUCKER et al,

Defendant. /

Case Number: CV06-07662 SBA 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. District

Court, Northern District of California.

That on January 19, 2010, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by placing said

copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by depositing

said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery

receptacle located in the Clerk's office.

Arthur Parnell T50222

Salinas Valley State Prison

P.O. Box 1050

Soledad, CA 93960-1050

Dated: January 19, 2010

Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

By: LISA R CLARK, Deputy Clerk

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