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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DANNY GEROME YOUNG,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-03-2225 GEB KJM P

vs.

J. PULSIPHER, et al., 

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff is a state prison inmate proceeding pro se with a civil rights action under

42 U.S.C. § 1983. On July 7, 2006, he filed a request for permission to submit an additional

document, recovered from a box of records returned to him by correctional authorities after he

had filed his opposition to defendants’ motion for summary judgment. Defendants have not

opposed the motion.

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A court may consider only admissible evidence in support of a motion for

summary judgment. Orr v. Bank of America, NT & SA, 285 F.3d 764, 773 (9th Cir. 2002). 

Authentication is a “condition precedent to admissibility,” and this

condition is satisfied by “evidence sufficient to support a finding

that the matter in question is what its proponent claims.” Fed. R.

Evid. 901(a) . . . [U]nauthenticated documents cannot be

considered in a motion for summary judgment.

Id.; Hal Roach Studios v. Richard Feiner and Company, Inc., 896 F.2d 1542, 1550-51 (9th Cir.

1989). Because the “Inmate Request For Interview” form is not authenticated, the court will not

consider it unless plaintiff authenticates it within thirty days of the date of this order. Should

plaintiff not do so, the court will not consider this exhibit in its resolution of the pending motion

for summary judgment. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: December 1, 2006. 

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