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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983pr Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

Tony Roberts, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

J. Beard et al., 

Defendants. 

Case No: 15cv1044-WQH-(RBM)

ORDER DENYING JOINT MOTION 

TO CONTINUE THE EVIDENTIARY 

HEARING (Doc. 146.) 

Before the Court is a Joint Motion to Continue the Evidentiary Hearing for 

Thirty Days. (Doc. 146.) The Joint Motion lists the following reasons why the parties 

would like to move the evidentiary hearing date: 

1. to allow the Court an opportunity to rule on Plaintiff’s motion to appoint 

counsel; 

2. to allow the parties to meet and confer prior to the evidentiary hearing; 

3. to allow the Court an opportunity to rule on motions for witnesses; and 

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4. to allow the CDCR to receive the transportation order so that Plaintiff can be 

present at the evidentiary hearing. 

The Court does not find that any of these reasons are sufficient to justify 

continuing the evidentiary hearing. The Court has already denied Plaintiff’s motion to 

appoint counsel and will rule on Plaintiff’s motions to compel witnesses at the 

November 14, 2018 telephonic hearing. Moreover, the parties have met and conferred 

once over the evidentiary hearing and have plenty of time to do so again before the 

evidentiary hearing to be held on November 28, 2018. Finally, the CDCR will receive 

the transportation order in a timely manner. The joint motion to continue the 

evidentiary hearing is denied. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATE: October 26, 2018 

 

 ________________________ 

 Hon. Ruth Bermudez Montenegro 

 United States Magistrate Judge 

 

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