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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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 Klingele and Rand together require the district court “as a bare minimum,” to ensure that a pro

se prisoner has “fair notice of the requirements of the summary judgment rule.” Klingele, 849 F.2d at

411 (quotations omitted). “It would not be realistic to impute to a prison inmate ... an instinctual

awareness that the purpose of a motion for summary judgment is to head off a full-scale trial by

conducting a trial in miniature, on affidavits, so that not submitting counter affidavits is the equivalent

of not presenting any evidence at trial.” Jacobsen v. Filler, 790 F.2d 1362, 1364 n.4 (9th Cir. 1986)

(internal quotation omitted). Actual knowledge or any level of legal sophistication does not obviate the

need for judicial explanation. Rand, 113 F.3d at 1523 (citing Klingele, 849 F.2d at 411-12). Thus, the

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

SERGIO ALEJANDRO GAMEZ,

CDCR #C-47759,

Civil No. 08-1113 MJL (PCL)

Plaintiff,

ORDER PROVIDING NOTICE

PURSUANT TO KLINGELE / RAND

TO PRO SE PRISONER 

OF REQUIREMENTS FOR

OPPOSING SUMMARY

JUDGMENT

vs.

F. GONZALES, et al., 

Defendants.

This notice is required to be given to Plaintiff pursuant to Rand v. Rowland, 154 F.3d

952 (9th Cir. 1998) (en banc) and Klingele v. Eikenberry, 849 F.2d 409 (9th Cir. 1988):1

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district court must ensure that the prisoner knows “about his ‘right to file counter-affidavits or other

responsive materials and [to] alert[] [him] to the fact that his failure to so respond might result in the

entry of summary judgment against him.’” Jacobsen, 790 F.2d at 1365 n.8 (quoting Klingele, 849 F.2d

at 411).

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Defendants notified the Court that they will be filing a Motion for Summary Judgment

pursuant to FED.R.CIV.P. 56, by which they seek to have your case dismissed. A Motion for

Summary Judgment under Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will, if granted, end

your case.

Rule 56 tells you what you must do in order to oppose a Motion for Summary Judgment.

Generally, summary judgment must be granted when there is no genuine issue of material fact--

that is, if there is no real dispute about any fact that would affect the result of your case, and the

party who asked for summary judgment is entitled to judgment as a matter of law, which will

end your case. When a party you are suing makes a motion for summary judgment that is

properly supported by declarations (or other sworn testimony), you cannot simply rely on what

your complaint says. Instead, you must set out specific facts in declarations, depositions,

answers to interrogatories, or authenticated documents, as provided by Rule 56(e), that

contradict the facts shown in the defendants’ declarations and documents and show that there

is a genuine issue of material fact for trial. If you do not submit your own evidence in

opposition, summary judgment, if appropriate, may be entered against you. If summary

judgment is granted, your case will be dismissed and there will be no trial.

Conclusion and Order

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment has

been calendared for hearing on Monday, June 6, 2011, in Courtroom 14. Your Opposition

(including any supporting documents) must be filed with the Court and served on all parties by

Monday, May 23, 2011. Defendants are instructed that Plaintiff shall not be limited in the

amount of copies necessary to prepare his Opposition. See Cal. Code Regs. tit. 15, § 3162(c).

If you do not wish to oppose Defendants’ Motion, you should file and serve a “Notice of NonOpposition” by that same date to let both the Court and Defendants know that the Motion is

unopposed. 

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If you do file and serve an Opposition, Defendants must file and serve their Reply to that

Opposition by Tuesday, May 31, 2011.

 At the time appointed for hearing, the Court will, in its discretion, consider Defendants’

Motion for Summary Judgment pursuant to FED.R.CIV.P. 56 as submitted on the papers, and will

issue its written opinion soon thereafter. Thus, unless otherwise ordered, no appearances are

required and no oral argument will be heard. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: April 25, 2011

M. James Lorenz

United States District Court Judge

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