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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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL ANTHONY TODD,

Plaintiff,

v.

P. JOHNSON, et al.,

Defendants.

CASE NO. 1:12-cv-02083-LJO-MJS (PC)

ORDER SETTING EVIDENTIARY 

HEARING

Date: May 29, 2015

Time: 1:00 p.m., Courtroom 6 (MJS)

Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights action brought 

pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The action proceeds against Defendants Doe, Harrington, 

Johnson, Norton, and Weatherford on Plaintiff’s Eighth Amendment failure to protect 

claim. Defendants Harrington, Johnson, Norton and Weatherford have appeared in the 

action. Defendant Doe has not been identified.

On July 3, 2014, Defendants filed a motion for summary judgment based on

Plaintiff’s failure to exhaust administrative remedies. (ECF No. 70.) On April 13, 2015, 

the District Court adopted the Magistrate Judge’s Findings and Recommendations to 

deny the motion. (ECF No. 90.) The matter was referred back to the Magistrate Judge 

for further proceedings on the exhaustion issue.

In Albino v. Baca, 747 F.3d 1162, 1170 (9th Cir. 2014), the Ninth Circuit held that 

where a genuine dispute of material fact exists, the issue of exhaustion should be 

resolved by the judge “at the very beginning of the litigation.”

Accordingly, the Court HEREBY SETS an evidentiary hearing before the 

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Honorable Michael J. Seng, United States Magistrate Judge, to decide disputed issues 

of fact relating to the exhaustion of Plaintiff’s claims. The hearing will be held on May 29, 

2015, at 1:00 p.m., in Courtroom 6, Seventh Floor of the United States District Court in 

Fresno, California. The hearing will commence and be completed that afternoon, and will 

be limited to the issue of whether Plaintiff is excused from the Prison Litigation Reform 

Act’s exhaustion requirement because administrative remedies were “effectively 

unavailable.” The Court will by separate Order make arrangements for Plaintiffs

appearance at said hearing.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 15, 2015 /s/Michael J. Seng 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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