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Nature of Suit Code: 220
Nature of Suit: Foreclosure
Cause of Action: 28:1331(a) Fed. Question: Real Property

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SEDALIA BENTON, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

REAL ESTATE FINANCIAL SERVICES, 

INC., et al., 

Defendants. 

Case No. 15-cv-03500-JSW 

ORDER GRANTING REQUEST FOR 

EXTENSION OF TIME 

Re: Docket No. 7 

On July 30, 2015, the Court issued an Order denying the application for a temporary 

restraining order, filed by Plaintiff, Sedalia Benton. In that Order, the Court also denied Ms. 

Benton’s application to proceed in forma pauperis and dismissed the complaint with leave to 

amend. The Court directed Ms. Benton to file an amended complaint and a renewed application to 

proceed in forma pauperis by August 28, 2015. 

Ms. Benton did not file an amended complaint by that deadline. On August 31, 2015, 

however, she filed a motion to extend the deadline for a period of thirty days, ostensibly on the 

basis that she was in the hospital. (See generally Docket No. 7.) In light of Ms. Benton’s pro se 

status, the Court shall grant her request. Although Ms. Benton is representing herself, she is 

expected to comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Local Rules, this Court’s 

standing orders, and any deadlines set by the Court. See, e.g., Ghazali v. Moran, 46 F.3d, 52, 54 

(9th Cir. 1995) (noting that pro se litigants are bound by the rules of procedure), cert denied, 516 

U.S. 838 (1995); Civil L.R. 3-9(a). Therefore, if Ms. Benton seeks any extensions of time in the 

future, she is admonished to file such requests sufficiently in advance of a deadline for the Court 

to rule on the request before the deadline expires. 

Accordingly, Ms. Benton shall file an amended complaint and renewed motion to proceed 

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