Morton v. State Bar of Arizona
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ORDER that Plaintiff's 7 Motion for Relief from Order is denied. Plaintiff is advised that this case is closed and the Court will summarily deny any further motions. Signed by Judge David G Campbell on 2/27/2015.(LFIG)
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA
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Carly Morton,
Plaintiff,
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No. CV-14-1647-PHX-DGC
ORDER
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State Bar of Arizona,
Defendant.
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Plaintiff Carly Morton has filed a one-paragraph Motion for Relief from Order.
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Doc. 7. Plaintiff claims that she is entitled to relief Rule 60(b)(6) because the Court’s
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previous order (Doc. 6) “is not applicable for her circumstances” and because the Court
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did not appoint an attorney to represent her. The Court will deny Plaintiff’s motion for
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several reasons.
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First, a motion under Rule 60(b)(6) must be brought within a reasonable time.
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Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(c)(1). Plaintiff waited more than five months to file her one-paragraph
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motion, which was not reasonable. The motion is untimely.
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Second, the motion is more appropriately characterized as a motion for
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reconsideration. Such motions must be brought within 14 days. LRCiv 7.2(g)(2). The
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motion is untimely for this reason as well.
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Third, even if the Court were to consider the motion for reconsideration, Plaintiff
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has failed to show that the Court committed a clear error of law that would make
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reconsideration appropriate. Sch. Dist. No. 1J, Multnomah Cnty., Or. v. ACandS, Inc., 5
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F.3d 1255, 1263 (9th Cir. 1993) (listing the bases for granting a motion for
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reconsideration); United States v. Rezzonico, 32 F. Supp. 2d 1112, 1116 (D. Ariz. 1998)
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(noting that motions for reconsideration cannot be used to ask the court “‘to rethink what
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the court has already thought through’” (quoting Above the Belt, Inc. v. Mel Bohannan
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Roofing, Inc., 99 F.R.D. 99, 101 (E.D. Va. 1983)).
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Fourth, in its order dismissing Plaintiff’s complaint, the Court explained that
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Plaintiff had not filed an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and that the Sixth Amendment
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does not provide any private right of action against individual attorneys or a state bar
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association. Doc. 6. This ruling was correct. Even if Plaintiff had made a claim for
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violation of her constitutional rights under § 1983, it could not be sustained. “[A] lawyer
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representing a client is not, by virtue of being an officer of the court, a state actor ‘under
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color of state law’ within the meaning of § 1983.” Polk Cnty. v. Dodson, 454 U.S. 312,
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318 (1981); Miranda v. Clark Cnty., Nevada, 319 F.3d 465, 468 (9th Cir. 2003).
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IT IS ORDERED that Plaintiff’s Motion for Relief from Order (Doc. 7) is
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denied. Plaintiff is advised that this case is closed and the Court will summarily deny
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any further motions.
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Dated this 27th day of February, 2015.
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