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Parties Involved:
Lindsey Cunningham
Defendant
Audrey King
Defendant
Robert D. Mix
Plaintiff
Saloum
Defendant

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERT D. MIX,

Plaintiff,

v.

AUDREY KING, Executive Director, 

CSH, LINDSEY CUNNINGHAM, 

Psychologist, CSH, DR. SALOUM, 

Psychiatrist, CSH,

Defendants.

1:13-cv-00823-AWI-MJS (PC)

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND 

DENYING IN PART MOTION TO STAY 

ACTION AND TO VACATE TRIAL AND 

PRETRIAL DEADLINES

(ECF No. 75)

Plaintiff is a civil detainee proceeding pro se in a civil rights action brought pursuant 

to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The action proceeds against Defendants Willow Saloum and 

Lindsey Cunningham on Plaintiff’s Fourteenth Amendment failure to protect claim. Trial 

is set for July 8, 2016. (ECF No. 70.)

Defendants moved this Court for an order staying the proceedings and vacating the 

Court’s Pretrial Order of February 22, 2016 (ECF No. 56) and Minute Order of March 31, 

2016 (ECF No. 70) including the dates/deadlines for filing final witness lists, delivery of 

exhibit binders, list of discovery documents intended for use at trial, opposition for 

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motions in limine, if any, jury instructions, proposed voir dire questions, and trial given 

the sudden and unexpected death of their trial counsel. The matter since has been 

reassigned to a new deputy attorney general. (ECF No. 78.)

In light of the reassignment of this action, the Court concludes that Defendants’ 

request to stay the proceedings is moot. However, given the imminent pretrial deadlines 

and trial date, the Court will grant Defendants’ motion to vacate the remaining dates of 

the Pretrial Order and the Court’s Minute Order of March 31, 2016. 

Thus, good cause having been shown, Defendant’s motion is GRANTD IN PART 

AND DENIED IN PART as follows:

1. Defendants’ request to stay the proceedings is DENIED at moot;

2. The present remaining dates of the Pretrial Order of February 22, 2016 (ECF 

No. 56), and Minute Order of March 31, 2016 (ECF No. 70) are vacated; and

3. The undersigned shall separately issue a scheduling order resetting pretrial 

deadlines and trial.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 3, 2016 /s/Michael J. Seng 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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