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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

GREGORIO FUNTANILLA, JR.,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-02-1157 LKK GGH P

vs.

KAREN KELLY, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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On December 12, 2008, the court reluctantly granted the motion to withdraw filed

by plaintiff’s counsel. The court ordered defendants to serve plaintiff with their motion for

summary judgment and granted plaintiff thirty days to file his opposition. 

On February 4, 2009, plaintiff filed his opposition. Plaintiff does not address the

merits of the motion. Rather, he argues that defendants’ motion should be vacated because he

did not consent to former counsel’s agreement to permit the filing of the motion. 

Plaintiff, a very frequent, sophisticated litigator, who has been known to the

undersigned for nearly all of his nineteen years on the bench, has now tied one too many knots

in the adjudication of this seven year old case. The court did not direct plaintiff to file what is in

essence a motion to strike defendants’ summary judgment motion, or otherwise authorize

plaintiff to unilaterally choose, in his discretion, to file piecemeal oppositions. Plaintiff is stuck

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with the opposition that he filed. To the extent that it is later ruled insubstantial, plaintiff has

only himself to blame. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that defendants’ motion for summary

judgment is submitted for decision. Plaintiff may not file any other papers regarding the

summary judgment motion unless otherwise directed by the court.

DATED: February 9, 2009

 /s Gregory G. Hollows

 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

fun1157.ord

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