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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

WILLIAM JACKSON KITCHENS,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-04-1206 MCE PAN P

vs.

PAT HOUGE, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff is an individual housed at Coalinga State Hospital pursuant to California

Welfare and Institutions Code § 6600 et seq. proceeding pro se with a civil rights action pursuant

to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On December 19, 2005, plaintiff filed a document styled “Plaintiff’s

Objection to Defendant’s Answer and Demand for Jury Trial.” The court construes this

document as a reply to the answer to plaintiff’s complaint filed by defendant Houge on December

5, 2005.

Rule 7 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides as follows:

There shall be a complaint and an answer; a reply to a counterclaim

denominated as such; an answer to a cross-claim, if the answer contains a

cross-claim; a third-party complaint, if a person who was not an original

party is summoned under the provisions of Rule 14; and a third-party

answer, if a third-party complaint is served. No other pleading shall be

allowed, except that the court may order a reply to an answer or a thirdparty answer. 

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Fed. R. Civ. P. 7(a) (emphasis added). The court has not ordered plaintiff to reply to defendants’

answer and declines to make such an order. For that reason, the document filed by plaintiff on

December 19, 2005 will be disregarded.

In accordance with the above, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff’s

December 19, 2005 objection to defendant’s answer shall be disregarded. 

DATED: July 31, 2006.

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