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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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 Plaintiff’s objections were due on January 4, 2006. The objections were delivered to 1

prison officials for mailing on January 9, 2006, which is deemed the filing date for said

objections, see Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988), and were served on counsel for defendant

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ORLANDO ELLISON,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-03-1391 FCD JFM P

vs.

DR. NADIM KHOURY, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed this civil rights action

seeking relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The matter was referred to a United States Magistrate

Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local General Order No. 262.

On December 21, 2005, the magistrate judge filed findings and recommendations

herein which were served on all parties and which contained notice to all parties that any

objections to the findings and recommendations were to be filed within twenty days. Plaintiff

has filed objections to the findings and recommendations and defendant Bhagavan has filed a

reply to plaintiff’s objections.

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Bhagavan on that date. On January 23, 2006, a request for extension of time to file objections,

signed by plaintiff on December 29, 2005, was filed in this action. Good cause appearing, the

request will be granted nunc pro tunc and plaintiff’s objections will be deemed timely filed.

The court notes that plaintiff’s request for extension of time was not served on defendant

Bhagavan. Plaintiff is advised that every document submitted to the court for consideration must

be served on defendants. Fed. R. Civ. P. 5. Plaintiff is required to serve all documents in this

action conventionally in accordance with the relevant provisions of Fed. R. Civ. P. 5. See Local

Rule 5-135(b). Since an attorney has filed a document with the court on behalf of defendants,

documents submitted by plaintiff must be served on that attorney and not on the defendant. Fed.

R. Civ. P. 5(b)(1). Conventional service is usually accomplished by mailing a copy of the

document to the attorney’s address of record. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 5(b)(2)(B). Plaintiff must

include with every document filed in this action a certificate stating the date an accurate copy of

the document was mailed to defendants’s attorney and the address to which it was mailed. See

Local Rule 5-135(b) and (c).

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In accordance with the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) and Local Rule 72-

304, this court has conducted a de novo review of this case. Having carefully reviewed the entire

file, the court finds the findings and recommendations to be supported by the record and by

proper analysis.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. Plaintiff’s January 23, 2006 request for extension of time is granted;

2. Plaintiff’s January 11, 2006 objections are deemed timely filed;

3. The findings and recommendations filed December 21, 2005, are adopted in

full;

4. Defendant Bhagavan’s February 23, 2005 motion to set aside entry default is

granted;

5. The Clerk of the Court is directed to set aside the default entered against

defendant Bhagavan;

6. Defendant Bhagavan shall respond to the complaint within ten days from the

date of this order; and

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7. Plaintiff’s March 10, 2005 and May 16, 2005 motions for default judgment are

denied. 

DATED:February 2, 2006

/s/ Frank C. Damrell Jr. 

FRANK C. DAMRELL JR.

United States District Judge

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