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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Personal Injury

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN PARLANTE,

No. CIV S-07-2502 LKK DAD PS

Plaintiff,

v. ORDER

KENNETH G. PETERSON, et al.,

Defendants.

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Plaintiff, a resident of the State of Nevada, is proceeding with this action pro se. 

Plaintiff has filed a motion for permission to file electronically. He states that he is well

equipped to do so and will agree to be held to the standards applicable to lawyers required to file

electronically.

Although the Eastern District of California is an electronic filing district,

unrepresented persons are required to file and serve paper documents unless the court grants

leave to file electronically. Local Rule 5-133(a) & (b)(2). A request to use electronic filing as an

exception to the rule may be made as a written motion setting out an explanation of reasons for

the requested exception. Local Rule 5-133(b)(3). Here, it appears that plaintiff has requested an

exception to the rule due to his computer expertise and out-of-state residence.

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 Although plaintiff’s motion purports to be a sworn declaration, there is no evidence that 1

plaintiff appeared before a notary public or other official authorized to administer an oath. An

unsworn declaration executed within the United States should be subscribed by the declarant in

substantially the following form: “I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true

and correct. Executed on (date).” 28 U.S.C. § 1781.

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Plaintiff will be required to file a declaration in which he states that he has 1

investigated this court’s electronic filing requirements, has the necessary hardware and software,

and will comply with all requirements concerning electronic filing in this court. General

information is available on the following website: http://www.uscourts.gov/. For additional

information, plaintiff may contact Keith Holland, Operations Manager for the United States

District Court for the Eastern District of California, at (916) 930-4078. Upon the filing of a

satisfactory declaration, the court will grant plaintiff’s motion.

If the motion is granted, plaintiff must immediately register to file documents

electronically through ECF. See Local Rule 1-101 (defining “E-Filing Registration”). “E-Filing

registration also acts as a consent to service by electronic means during the course of an action.” 

Id. Thus, if plaintiff is granted leave to file electronically, he must file all documents in this case

electronically, and all court orders will be served on plaintiff electronically. Until plaintiff has

been granted leave to use electronic filing, his communication with the court must be by means

of paper documents filed in accordance with Local Rule 5-133. No document can be served

electronically on any defendant unless and until the defendant has appeared in the case and

registered to file electronically in accordance with Local Rule 1-101. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff shall file, within fifteen

days after this order is filed, the declaration described in the text of this order.

DATED: December 6, 2007.

DAD:kw

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