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Nature of Suit Code: 625
Nature of Suit: Drug Related Seizure of Property
Cause of Action: 21:881 Forfeiture Property-Drugs

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Under the Local Rules of this District, no response to a motion for leave to file a

motion for reconsideration need be filed. See Civil L.R. 7-9(d).

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The above-titled action was reassigned to the undersigned on November 3, 2015.

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff,

 v.

$209,815 IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY,

Defendant.

 /

JULIO FIGUEROA,

Claimant.

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No. C-14-0780 MMC

ORDER GRANTING GOVERNMENT’S

MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE MOTION

TO RECONSIDERATION OF ORDER

DENYING GOVERNMENT’S MOTION

FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT; SETTING

BRIEFING SCHEDULE AND HEARING;

CONTINUING HEARING ON

CLAIMANT’S MOTION FOR

RECONSIDERATION

Before the Court is the “Motion of the United States for Leave to File a Motion to

Reconsider the October 14, 2015 Decision Denying Its Summary Judgment Motion,” filed

December 9, 2015. Having read and considered the motion,1

 the Court rules as follows.

Although the Court is not persuaded reconsideration is warranted for the reasons

stated by the government, the Court finds reconsideration nonetheless is appropriate. In

its order of October 14, 2015, the Court2 found “[the] unredacted training records for

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Jackson,” a narcotics detection canine, were “required for a proper determination of

probable cause” (see Order at 28:13-14), ordered the government to produce the subject

records to claimant and afforded claimant leave to file a motion for reconsideration of the

denial of his motion for summary judgment, “limited to challenges to the training records so

produced” (see Order at 29:1-11). Claimant, after receiving the subject records,

subsequently filed his motion for reconsideration. Under the circumstances, the Court finds

it appropriate to afford the government a similar opportunity and, accordingly, hereby

GRANTS the government’s motion for leave to file a motion for reconsideration, and sets

the following briefing schedule and hearing date:

1. As requested by the government in its motion for leave, the government’s

December 9, 2015 filing in opposition to claimant’s motion for reconsideration is deemed

the government’s motion for reconsideration.

2. No later than January 8, 2016, claimant shall file his opposition to the

government’s motion for reconsideration, or, alternatively, a statement indicating that his

reply in support of his motion for reconsideration shall be deemed to be his opposition to

the government’s motion.

3. No later than January 15, 2016, the government shall file its reply.

4. The hearing on the government’s motion for reconsideration is hereby scheduled

for January 29, 2016, at 9:00 a.m.

5. In the interests of judicial economy, the hearing on claimant’s motion for

reconsideration is hereby CONTINUED from January 8, 2016, to January 29, 2016, at 9:00

a.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 22, 2015 

MAXINE M. CHESNEY

United States District Judge

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