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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 

KYLE AVERY, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

M.D. STAINER, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:18-cv-1302 JAM AC P 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 

§ 1983, has requested copies of his complaint and supplemental exhibit, as well as a copy of the 

Local Rules that apply to pro se cases. ECF No. 16. Plaintiff states that he is aware of this 

District’s policy on providing copies, but asserts that his copies of the complaint and exhibit were 

lost, and possibly stolen, during his transfer to administrative segregation and he has no other way 

of obtaining a copy of the complaint. Id. 

It is not the practice of this court to provide copies without payment of the appropriate 

fees, regardless of whether a party is proceeding in forma pauperis, and plaintiff’s complaint, 

ECF No. 1, and exhibit, ECF No. 6, are eighty-two pages long. However, in light of the 

circumstances, as a one-time courtesy, the Clerk of the Court will be directed to provide plaintiff 

a one-time, courtesy copy of his complaint. Plaintiff’s supplemental exhibit, on the other hand, 

appears to simply be a copy of his inmate appeal in RJD-15-03536. The court will not provide a 

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copy of this exhibit because plaintiff should be able to obtain a copy of the appeal from his 

central file. The court also declines to send a copy of the Local Rules at this time. Once a 

defendant has been served, this case will be referred to the court’s Post-Screening ADR 

(Alternative Dispute Resolution) Project to be scheduled for a settlement conference. In the event 

defendants opt out of the ADR Project or a settlement conference is unsuccessful and this case 

proceeds into the litigation phase, plaintiff will receive a courtesy copy of the Local Rules at that 

time. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff’s motion for copies, ECF No. 16, 

is granted in part and denied in part. The motion is granted to the extent that the Clerk of the 

Court is directed to send plaintiff a one-time, courtesy copy of the complaint, ECF No. 1. The 

motion is otherwise denied. 

DATED: April 28, 2020 

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