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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MERRICK J. MOORE,

Plaintiff, No. 2:11-cv-3273 GGH P

vs.

L. GONZALEZ, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff, a prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, seeks relief pursuant

to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff has filed a request, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(a), asking that

the court order that the name of a non-party to this action, an individual named J. Sloss, be

removed from the case caption used by defendants’ counsel, noting that this person’s name is

erroneously set forth within the case caption as a defendant in the answer, which was filed on

April 2, 2012, on behalf of defendants Bennett, Fragoso, Pomilia and L. Gonzalez. See docket #

26. In addition, the erroneously named defendant appears in an order that was filed by the court

at docket # 35, after the defendants submitted a proposed order to be permitted to conduct

plaintiff’s deposition by videoconference (if such were available at the prison facility), with the

name “J. Sloss” included incorrectly, for an extension of time. 

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Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that plaintiff’s request, filed on May 16, 2012

(docket # 36), that defendants’ counsel be required to remove the name of “J. Sloss” as a

defendant in the case caption in its filings in the instant case is GRANTED and in future filings

counsel for defendants is to reference defendants as “L. Gonzalez, et al.” in the case caption.

DATED: May 31, 2012

 /s/ Gregory G. Hollows 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

GGH:009

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