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Parties Involved:
Raul Lopez
Respondent
Damous D. Nettles
Petitioner

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John Balazs, Bar. No. 157287 

Attorney at Law 

916 2nd Street, Suite F 

Sacramento, California 95814 

Telephone: (916) 447-9299 

Facsimile: (916) 557-1118 

john@balazslaw.com

Attorney for Petitioner 

Damous D. Nettles 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

DAMOUS D. NETTLES, 

Petitioner, 

v. 

RAUL LOPEZ, 

Respondent. 

No. 1:11-CV-1201 AWI JLT 

PROPOSED ORDER TO EXTEND TIME FOR 

PETITIONER TO ELECT WHETHER TO 

RECHARACTERIZE HIS HABEAS 

PETITION AS AN ACTION UNDER 42 U.S.C. § 1983

Hon. Jennifer L. Thurston 

U.S. Magistrate Judge 

 On August 22, 2016, the Court issued an order directing petitioner Damous D. Nettles to 

notify the Court within 45 days whether he wishes his habeas petition to be recharacterized as an 

action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, pursuant to the Ninth Circuit’s decision in this case. 

Dkt. entry 55. Petitioner intends to file with the U.S. Supreme Court a petition for writ of 

certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit’s 6-5 en banc decision on or before the October 24, 2016 

due date for the petition. 

 Petitioner thus requests that the Court extend the due date to respond to the Court’s order 

for approximately 60 days to December 5, 2016 to permit petitioner to file and have the Supreme 

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Court’s consider and decide his certiorari petition before he makes the election whether to have 

his habeas petition recharacterized as a § 1983 action. 

 Respectfully submitted, 

 Dated: October 6, 2016 

 /s/ John Balazs 

 John Balazs 

 Attorney for Petitioner 

 DAMOUS D. NETTLES 

 

ORDER 

 IT IS SO ORDERED that the deadline for petitioner to notify the Court whether he 

wishes his habeas petition to be recharacterized as an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is extended 

to December 5, 2016. 

 Dated: ______________, 2016 

 

 HON. JENNIFER L. THURSTON 

 United States Magistrate Judge 

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