(PC) Sharpe v. Sherman, et al.

Filing 116

ORDER REQUIRING RESPONSE TO PLAINTIFF'S REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO ADD DEFENDANT, by Magistrate Judge Erica P. Grosjean on 11/17/2022. ( Responses due by 12/1/2022)(Martin-Gill, S)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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Plaintiff,

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v.

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C. CRYER, et al.,

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Case No. 1:19-cv-00711-ADA-EPG (PC)

ADAM SHARPE,

ORDER REQUIRING RESPONSE TO
PLAINTIFF’S REQUEST FOR PERMISSION
TO ADD DEFENDANT
(ECF No. 115)

Defendants.

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Plaintiff Adam Sharpe is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this

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civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This case proceeds on Plaintiff’s claims that

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Defendants C. Cryer, J. Lewis, and S. Gates were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical

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needs in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Now before the Court is Plaintiff’s “request for

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permission to add defendant.” (ECF No. 115, p. 1) (capitalization omitted).

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As grounds, Plaintiff states that he recently received and reviewed the transcript of

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Defendant Lewis, who claimed to have no involvement in the review of Plaintiff’s prison appeal,

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and instead “place[d] responsibility and culpability on a previously unknown subordinate, Cindy

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Nules.” (Id. at 1). Plaintiff states that he was unaware of her existence until now and had no way

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of knowing about her “as her name does not appear anywhere in the appeal response, nor any

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document Plaintiff was provided.” (Id. at 2).
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Upon review, the Court will require a response to Plaintiff’s request to add Nules as a
defendant.
Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that Defendants shall file a response to Plaintiff’s request
for permission to add a defendant (ECF No. 115) by no later than December 1, 2022.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated:

November 17, 2022

/s/
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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