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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LAVETTE SANDERS, individually and ) 

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as guardian ad litem for the estate of ) 

Michael Sanders, )

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Plaintiff, )

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v. )

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THE CITY OF FRESNO a municipality, )

et. al., )

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Defendants. )

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CIV F 05-0469 AWI SMS

ORDER ON PLAINTIFF’S

LATE FILED

SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING

Currently pending before the Court is the City of Fresno Defendants’s motion for

summary judgment based on qualified immunity. Hearing on the motion is set for January 28,

2008. Trial in this matter is set for July 15, 2008. By order of December 6, 2007, this Court

requested additional briefing regarding the circumstances surrounding the initial use of the taser

by Defendant Officer Herring. By stipulated order, the additional briefing was to be filed no later

than January 2, 2008. See Court’s Docket Doc. No. 120. The City of Fresno Defendants

complied with this order and timely filed supplemental briefing. Plaintiff, despite agreeing to file

supplemental materials by January 2, 2008, failed to do so. Instead, Plaintiff filed her

supplemental opposition on January 7, 2008. In light of the stipulated order, striking the entirety

of Plaintiff’s January 7, 2008, filings would be justified. However, given the January 28, 2008,

hearing date, the Court will not strike the filings. 

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The December 6, 2007, order did allow the submission of additional evidence. See Court’s Docket Doc.

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No. 118.

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Plaintiff’s supplemental briefing does address the Defendants’ supplemental briefing,

provides a new declaration from Plaintiff, and argues, in part, that there are inconsistencies

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among the officers’s testimony. See Court’s Docket Doc. No. 124. Since Plaintiff responded to

the Defendants’s supplemental briefing, see id. at 2:28-3:1, the Court will allow Defendants to

file a reply to Plaintiff’s supplemental briefing. The January 28, 2008, hearing date will remain.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the City of Fresno Defendants may file a

reply to Plaintiff’s January 7, 2008, filings on or by 4:30 p.m. on January 16, 2008.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 8, 2008 /s/ Anthony W. Ishii 

0m8i78 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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