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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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United States District Court 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JAMES C. MCCURDY, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

M. RIVERO, et al., 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 17-01043 BLF (PR) 

ORDER GRANTING FOURTH AND 

FINAL EXTENSION OF TIME TO 

FILE MOTION FOR LEAVE TO 

FILE SUPPLEMENTAL 

COMPLAINT AND PROPOSED 

SUPPLEMENTAL COMPLAINT 

(Docket No. 91) 

Plaintiff, a state prisoner, proceeding pro se, filed an amended civil rights complaint 

pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. (Docket No. 11.) On January 25, 2018, the Court granted 

Plaintiff leave to file a motion for leave to file a supplement complaint, along with the 

proposed supplemental complaint, to attempt to allege sufficient facts to join Mr. J. Clark 

Kelso to this action under Rule 20(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. (Docket 

No. 69.) Plaintiff has filed a motion seeking a fourth extension of time, seeking an 

additional 30 days to do so. (Docket No. 91.) 

In his declaration in support of the motion, Plaintiff asserts that his limited access to 

the law library to research case law and other resources warrants additional time. (Docket 

No. 92 at 2.) Plaintiff’s motion is GRANTED. However, the Court notes that Plaintiff 

has now had approximately five months to file a motion for leave to file a supplemental 

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complaint and the proposed complaint, and he has thus far failed to explain what further 

legal research is necessary to enable him to state a claim against Mr. Kelso. Plaintiff need 

only state sufficient facts to support a claim against Mr. Kelso that “aris[e] out of the same 

transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences; and any question of law or 

fact common to all defendants” to join him as a Defendant to this action. Fed. R. Civ. P. 

20(a)(2). Lengthy legal arguments and extensive citations to case law are not necessary. 

Accordingly, this shall be the last extension of time that Plaintiff shall be granted. 

Plaintiff shall file the motion for leave to file a supplemental complaint and the 

proposed supplemental complaint no later than thirty (30) days from the date this order 

is filed. No further extensions of time shall be granted. 

 This order terminates Docket No. 91. 

IT IS SO ORDERED 

Dated: _____________________ ________________________ 

BETH LABSON FREEMAN 

United States District Judge 

Order Granting Fourth and Final EOT to File Suppl. Compl. 

PRO-SE\BLF\CR.17\01043McCurdy_eot4-suppl.compl 

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