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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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NOT FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Louis Thomas Cervantes, 

Plaintiff, 

vs.

Richard Pratt, et al., 

Defendants. 

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No. CV04-1004-PHX-SRB

ORDER

Pending before the Court is Defendants’ Request for Attorneys’ Fees to which

Plaintiff responded in opposition. The Magistrate Judge issued his Report and

Recommendation recommending that the Motion for Attorneys’ Fees be granted and that

Defendants be awarded their attorneys’ fees in the amount of $55,294. Plaintiff filed his

objections on September 22, 2008 requesting that the Court decline to grant attorneys’ fees.

 The basis of Plaintiff’s objection is primarily his re-argument of the merits of his case

and his claim that he was unable to properly support the merits of his case because of the

actions of Defendants is allegedly improperly resisting discovery. Plaintiff fails to address

the substantive matters addressed in the Report and Recommendation concerning the

standards applied by the Magistrate Judge in connection with an award of attorneys’ fees

against an unsuccessful pro se litigant in civil rights cases. 

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 In light of the numerous unsuccessful claims this Plaintiff has filed in both federal

and state court and the numerous frivolous pleadings filed even after this Court advised

Plaintiff that he had “filed numerous pleadings in this case that bear little if any relevance to

the limited issues before the Court and which will cause unnecessary delay or needless

increase in the cost of litigation to the Defendants,” the Court agrees with the Magistrate

Judge that this case, considered in the context of ten other non-meritorious civil cases filed

by this Plaintiff and the numerous frivolous motions and appeals filed in this case, more than

justifies an award of attorneys’ fees to Defendants. This case provides those exceptional

circumstances justifying such an award.

IT IS ORDERED overruling Plaintiff’s objections to the Magistrate Judge’s Report

and Recommendation.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED adopting the Report and Recommendation of the

Magistrate Judge as the order of this Court.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED granting Defendants’ attorneys’ fees in the amount of

$55,294. (Doc. 389).

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED directing the Clerk to enter judgment accordingly.

DATED this 6th day of November, 2008.

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