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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 29:621 Job Discrimination (Age)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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RAYMOND BELLIVEAU, )

) 2:05-cv-1175-GEB-DAD

Plaintiff, )

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v. ) ORDER

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THOMSON FINANCIAL, INC., )

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Defendant. )

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On February 8, 2007, the Court ordered stricken Plaintiff’s

Opposition to Motion for Fees, Request to Strike, and Declarations of

Robert P. Biegler and Raymond Belliveau (collectively, “Opposition”)

because Plaintiff filed it in the wrong civil action. (Feb. 8, 2007,

Order at 1.) On February 14, 2007, Plaintiff’s counsel requested

“that the matter be continued so that [he could] re-file the same

Opposition under the correct case number.” (Pl.’s Feb. 14, 2007, Req.

at 1.) Defendant opposed this request. (Def.’s Opp’n to Feb. 14,

2007 Req. at 2.) The Court ordered Plaintiff to file his Opposition

by February 20, 2007. (Feb. 15, 2007, Order at 2.) Plaintiff failed

to meet this deadline.

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Plaintiff asserts he never saw the language in the Court’s

Order requiring him to file his Opposition by February 20, 2007. 

(Pl.’s Mar. 1, 2007, Letter.) It appears Plaintiff’s counsel just

read the Clerk’s Office’s docket entry for the Order, which obviously

was not required to reflect the text of the Order, and therefore

assumed he had no deadline within which to file his Opposition. Since

Plaintiff’s counsel did not read the text of the Order, nor have any

member of his law firm read it, Plaintiff did not comply with the

filing requirement in the Order, and did not file his Opposition in

the correct action until March 1, 2007. (Pl.’s Opp’n at 1.) 

Nevertheless, the hearing scheduled for March 19, 2007 is rescheduled

for 10:00 a.m. on April 2, 2007. Defendant has until March 21, 2007

to file a Reply to Plaintiff’s Opposition. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 13, 2007

 

GARLAND E. BURRELL, JR.

United States District Judge

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