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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

VERNON WAYNE MCNEAL, NO. 2:02-cv-2524-MCE-JFM P

Plaintiff,

v. ORDER

FLEMING, et al.,

Defendants.

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On May 18, 2007, Defendants filed a request to continue the

trial date in this matter, presently set for October 15, 2007,

until after January 8, 2008 on grounds 1) that Defendant Fleming

has a previously scheduled vacation extending from October 1,

2007 to November 19, 2007; and 2) that several other Defendants

will be “unavailable during the Thanksgiving and Christmas

breaks.” 

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 By Minute Order dated May 22, 2007, the most recent 1

October 10, 2007 trial date (set on February 2, 2007) was

continued until October 15, 2007 to accommodate the Court’s trial

schedule.

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This case was originally filed on November 21, 2002, almost

five years ago. It has subsequently been set for trial on five

different occasions: February 9, 2005, March 8, 2006, November 1,

2006, February 7, 2007, October 10, 2007. Significantly, on 1

March 23, 2006, Defendants filed a request for continuance of the

then scheduled November 1, 2006 on exactly the same grounds now

offered; namely, Defendant’s Fleming’s vacation schedule and the

assertion that “several Defendants will be unavailable during the

Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks.” This is the same phrase,

taken verbatim, from the continuance request now before the

Court, and while the Court did grant a continuance in November of

2006 based on that representation it will not do so again. Trial

in this matter has already been repeatedly delayed, and the Court

declines to accept exactly the same rationale recycled from

Defendant’s November 2006 continuance request. The trial will

remain on calendar for October 15, 2007 as presently scheduled.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 27, 2007

_____________________________

MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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