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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:2000e Job Discrimination (Employment)

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MAHMOUD MOHAMED,

Plaintiff,

 v.

JOHN POTTER,

Defendant. /

No. C 05-02194 CRB

ORDER

This action for employment discrimination and retaliation arises out of nine separate

complaints that Plaintiff Mahmoud Mohamed (“Plaintiff”) made to the Equal Employment

Opportunity Commission between 1996 and 1999 against his employer, the United States

Postal Service (“Defendant”).

Plaintiff filed his complaint in May of 2005. Thereafter, the parties engaged in

protracted discovery. At a status conference in June of 2006, this Court set a hearing date of

September 2006 for any dispositive summary judgment that Defendant may wish to file. 

Discovery disputes compelled the postponement of that hearing until January of 2007, and

then again until May of 2007. On April 6, 2007, Defendant filed a voluminous motion for

summary judgment, which is currently scheduled to be heard on May 11, 2007. The papers

in support of Defendant’s motion comprise 19 volumes and more than 8,600 pages. Plaintiff

now seeks additional time to respond to the motion, which the government opposes.

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The Court finds it appropriate to give Plaintiff, who is not a native English speaker

and who is proceeding pro se in this matter, additional time to comb through the thousands of

pages of discovery produced by Defendant. The Court recognizes that many of these

thousands of pages should already be familiar to Plaintiff, who was responsible for

generating many of these materials through the nine complaints he filed before the EEOC,

and who is familiar with the subject matter of these materials through his participation in

those proceedings. Nonetheless, to afford Plaintiff an adequate opportunity to address the

legal issues raised in Defendant’s motion and to permit him an opportunity to develop a

complete response to the arguments presented therein, the Court hereby GRANTS Plaintiff’s

request for additional time to file his opposition.

Plaintiff shall file his opposition not later than Friday, June 1, 2007. Defendant shall

file his reply not later than Friday, June 15, 2007. The motion for summary judgment will be

heard on Friday, June 22, 2007, at 10:00 a.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 1, 2007 

CHARLES R. BREYER

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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