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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

THOMAS JOHN HEILMAN,

Plaintiff,

v.

A. WHITTEN, et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:15-cv-1585 MCE CKD P

ORDER

This pro se prisoner civil rights action proceeds on the First Amended Complaint. (ECF 

No. 11.) Service has been ordered on defendants Dooley, Mendonsa, and Whitten. (ECF No. 

15.) Before the court is plaintiff’s motion for judicial notice, or alternatively to supplement his 

complaint pursuant to Rule 15(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. (ECF No. 18.) 

Plaintiff avers that Exhibit A, attached to his motion, was filed in another case1and is relevant to 

his retaliation claims in this action. (Id. at 2; see Ex. A.) The pleading attached as Exhibit A was 

docketed in that case on July 30, 2012. (Vojkufka, ECF No. 99.) 

Supplementation under Rule 15(d) is not warranted, as that rule concerns “a supplemental 

pleading setting out any transaction, occurrence, or event that happened after the date of the 

pleading to be supplemented.” (Emphasis added.) However, the undersigned will take judicial 

 

1 Heilman v. Vojkufka, 2:08-cv-2788 KJM EFB, closed June 17, 2014. 

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notice of court records filed in plaintiff’s previous lawsuit, including the motion attached as Ex. 

A. Plaintiff may refer to this record – and any other record docketed in Vojkufka – in any future 

pleading in this action. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff’s motion for judicial notice (ECF 

No. 18) is granted.

Dated: April 14, 2016

2/heil1585.ord

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CAROLYN K. DELANEY

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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