Perry v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA et al
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Order by Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu granting 12 Motion for Extension of Time to Amend Complaint. Amended Complaint due 1/4/2013.(dmrlc1, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 12/18/2012) (Additional attachment(s) added on 12/18/2012: # 1 Certificate/Proof of Service) (ig, COURT STAFF).
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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For the Northern District of California
United States District Court
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ANTHONY A. PERRY,
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Plaintiff,
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ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF
EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE
AMENDED COMPLAINT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ET AL.,
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No. C 12-03534 DMR
Defendants.
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On November 21, 2012, the court granted pro se Plaintiff Anthony A. Perry’s application to
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proceed in forma pauperis and dismissed the complaint with leave to amend. [Docket No. 9.] The
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court granted Plaintiff until December 10, 2012 to file an amended complaint. On December 10,
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2012, Plaintiff filed a request for an extension of time to file the amended complaint, asserting that
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he needs additional time to learn the names of the defendants so that he may specifically name them
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in the amended complaint. [Docket No. 12.]
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In his original complaint, Plaintiff named a large number of individual defendants. However,
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Plaintiff only connected individually-named defendants to those claims that the court found time-
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barred. With respect to the remaining claims, which the court dismissed with leave to amend,
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Plaintiff did not connect any individually-named defendants to the incidents upon which those
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claims were based. Accordingly, in amending his complaint, Plaintiff should set forth facts linking
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the specific defendants he names to the alleged violation of his rights, in accordance with the court’s
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order dismissing the complaint. If Plaintiff is not able to name one or more defendants when he files
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his amended complaint, he should provide sufficient information to enable the court and his
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opponents to know who he is trying to identify. See Wakefield v. Thompson, 177 F.3d 1160, 1163
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(9th Cir. 1999) (noting that although the plaintiff did not know the name of the officer he sought to
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name as a defendant, the plaintiff informed the court that the officer’s identity could be determined
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“by inspecting the ‘parole papers that the plaintiff signed at the time of his release’ and the ‘Duty
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Roster for that day.’”). Plaintiff is hereby granted until January 4, 2013 to file an amended
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complaint.
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DONNA M. RYU onna M. Ryu
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