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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

DARREN HARRIS,

Plaintiff,

v.

KIM, et al.,

Defendants.

_____________________________________/

Case No. 1:05-cv-00003-AWI-SKO (PC)

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S 

MOTION FOR CONTINUANCE, 

VACATING DATES SET IN PRETRIAL 

ORDER, AND SETTING TELEPHONIC 

STATUS CONFERENCE

(Docs. 194, 195, and 196)

Date: February 1, 2016

Time: 3:00 p.m.

Courtroom: 2 (AWI)

Plaintiff Darren Harris, a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, filed this 

civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. ' 1983 on January 3, 2005. This action is proceeding on 

Plaintiff=s Fourth Amended Complaint against Defendants Olivarria, Williams, and Kim for 

violation of the Eighth Amendment, and against Defendants Olivarria and Lowden for violation of 

the First Amendment. This case is set for a telephonic trial confirmation hearing on December 7, 

2015, and jury trial on January 26, 2016. On December 2, 2015, Plaintiff filed a Motion 

Requesting a Continuance, based on his pending transfer from California Men’s Colony (“CMC”) 

in San Luis Obispo to Deuel Vocational Institution (“DVI”) in Tracy. Defendants filed a 

Statement of Non-Opposition on December 3, 2015.

Plaintiff represents that he was told on November 26, 2015, to pack his property for 

storage in property room at CMC pending a transfer to DVI. Once Plaintiff is transferred to DVI, 

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he will be without his property for approximately two weeks. Plaintiff estimates that he will need 

at least one-hundred twenty days to adjust to the new prison, receive his property, and prepare for 

trial; and he requests a new trial date of April 26, 2016. 

Defendants do not oppose the continuance but counsel will be unable to prepare for a trial 

on April 26, 2016, due to a trial set for April 11, 2016. Defendants’ counsel proposes a trial date 

in mid-March 2016 or May 2016. Defendants are also willing to consent to Magistrate Judge 

jurisdiction, if Judge Oberto has more availability. Defendants request a telephonic trial setting 

conference in early January 2016 to discuss potential trial dates. 

Requiring Plaintiff to prepare for trial and try this case without access to his legal material 

will unquestionably result in manifest injustice and therefore, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(e), the 

Court will grant his motion and vacate all trial-related dates. It appears that Plaintiff is presently 

en route from CMC to DVI, as the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s 

Inmate Locator website presently shows Plaintiff at Correctional Training Facility in Soledad.1 

The Court will set a telephonic status conference for February 1, 2016. At the hearing, the parties 

shall be prepared to discuss the status of Plaintiff’s property, possible trial dates, and consent to 

Magistrate Judge jurisdiction. 

Accordingly, the Court HEREBY ORDERS as follows:

1. Plaintiff’s Motion Requesting a Continuance is GRANTED;

2. The telephonic trial confirmation hearing set for December 7, 2015, at 3:00 p.m. 

and the jury trial set for January 26, 2016, at 8:30 a.m. are VACATED;

3. All dates set in the Pretrial Order are VACATED;

4. A telephonic status conference is set for February 1, 2016, at 3:00 p.m. before the 

undersigned;

5. Defendants’ counsel shall arrange for the participation of Plaintiff at the hearing 

and shall initiate the conference call to (559) 499-5669; and

 

1 The Court may take judicial notice of information on government websites not subject to reasonable dispute. Fed. R. 

Evid. 201; Daniels-Hall v. National Educ. Ass’n, 629 F.3d 992, 998-99 (9th Cir. 2010).

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6. The Clerk’s Office shall email a copy of this order to the Litigation Coordinator at 

DVI.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 3, 2015 

 SENIOR DISTRICT JUDGE

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