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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Civil Rights Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ALONZO JAMES JOSEPH, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

T. PARCIASEPE, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:14-cv-0414 GEB AC P 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action pursuant to 

42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff has filed a motion for default judgment. ECF No. 16. 

 In his motion for default judgment, plaintiff asserts that defendants were required to 

respond to the second amended complaint within thirty days of the filing of the court’s June 23, 

2015 order and findings and recommendations. ECF No. 16. He argues that thirty days have 

now passed and defendants are in default because they have not filed a response. Id. The 

June 23, 2015 order and findings and recommendations did not order either defendant to respond 

to the second amended complaint. ECF No. 14 at 12. The undersigned recommended that if the 

findings and recommendations were adopted by the district judge, then defendant Parciasepe 

should be ordered to respond to Counts I and II, in part, within thirty days of the district judge’s 

adoption of the findings and recommendations and that defendant Knipp be dismissed in his 

entirety. Id. Since the district judge has not yet adopted the findings and recommendations and 

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ordered defendant Parciasepe to respond to the second amended complaint, Parciasepe is not 

currently under any obligation to respond. Plaintiff’s motion for default judgment therefore is 

premature. If the findings and recommendations are adopted in full, defendant Knipp will have 

no obligation to respond because all claims against him will be dismissed in their entirety. Id. 

 Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff’s motion for default judgment 

(ECF No. 16) is denied as premature. 

DATED: August 5, 2015 

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