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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

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LAKEITH L. MCCOY,

Plaintiff,

v.

A. HOLGUIN, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:15-cv-00768-DAD-JDP

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ 

MOTION FOR A CONTINUANCE OF THE 

TRIAL DATE

ECF No. 113

Trial continued to May 19, 2020, at 1 p.m.

Defendants’ motion to continue the trial date until after plaintiff’s criminal trial, ECF No. 

113, is granted. The trial date is continued until May 19, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. (Defendants 

requested May 18, but the court is unavailable on that date.) 

The court grants this continuance reluctantly and does not anticipate further continuances. 

While I appreciate defendants’ arguments about the benefits of delaying the civil trial until after 

the related criminal trial, the defendants represent that the criminal trial has already been delayed 

“numerous times.” ECF No. 113 at 1. By the time of the new trial date, this civil case will be 

almost five years old. See ECF No. 1 (filed May 20, 2015). The civil trial cannot be held hostage 

to indefinite delays on the criminal side. Should the related criminal trial be postponed further, 

defendants are to notify the court of that delay immediately. 

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 5, 2019 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

No. 205

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