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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Jose Luis Torres Rodriguez,

Plaintiff, 

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City of Phoenix, et al.,

Defendants. 

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No. CV05-2092 PHX-DGC

ORDER 

Pending before the Court is Defendants' motion to dismiss the City of Phoenix Police

Department as a p arty on the ground that it is a non-jural entity incapable of being sued.

Doc. #11. Defendants filed this motion on September 7, 2005. Id. To date, Plaintiff has not

responded to the motion.

Pursuant to Local Rule of Civil Procedure 7.2(i), the Court will deem Plaintiff's failure

to resp ond as a consent to granting of the motion. See Ghazali v. Moran, 46 F.3d 52, 53-54

(9th Cir. 1995) (district court did not err in summarily granting the defendants’ motion to

dismiss pursuant to a local rule where t he pro se plaintiff failed to respond to the motion).

IT IS ORDERED that Defendants' motion to dismiss the City of Phoenix Police

Department is granted.

DATED this 1st day of December, 2005.

Case 2:05-cv-02092-DGC Document 21 Filed 12/01/05 Page 1 of 1