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

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TIMOTHY HOWARD,

Plaintiff,

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G. GONZALES, 

Defendant.

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1:12cv00487 LJO DLB PC

ORDER SETTING 

EVIDENTIARY HEARING

Date: April 15, 2015

Time: 10:00 a.m.

The Honorable Dennis L. Beck, Courtroom 6

Plaintiff Timothy Howard (“Plaintiff”), a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma 

pauperis, filed this civil rights action on March 30, 2012. He filed a First Amended Complaint 

on June 27, 2014. 

Defendant filed a motion for summary judgment based on exhaustion on August 21, 

2014. On January 23, 2015, the District Court adopted the Magistrate Judge’s Findings and 

Recommendations. Defendant’s motion for summary judgment was granted as to Plaintiff’s 

claims that Defendant (1) refused to file his grievances; and (2) denied medical care on 

December 22, 2009, and these claims were dismissed without prejudice.

Defendant’s motion was denied as to Plaintiff’s claim of retaliation, and the Court 

referred the matter back to the Magistrate Judge for further proceedings on the exhaustion issue.

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In Albino v. Baca, 747 F.3d 1162, 1170 (9th Cir. 2014), the Ninth Circuit held that where 

a genuine dispute of material fact exists, the issue should be resolved by the judge “at the very 

beginning of the litigation.”

Accordingly, the Court SETS an evidentiary hearing before the Honorable Dennis L. 

Beck, United States Magistrate Judge, to decide the disputed issues of fact relating to the 

exhaustion of Plaintiff’s retaliation claim. The hearing will be held on April 15, 2015, at 10:00 

a.m., in Courtroom 6, Seventh Floor of the United States Courthouse in Fresno, California. The 

hearing will commence and be completed that afternoon, and will be limited to the issue of 

whether Plaintiff’s January 8, 2010, appeal exhausted his retaliation claim. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 27, 2015 /s/ Dennis L. Beck 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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