Stevenson v. Beard et al

Filing 59

ORDER Re 58 Motion for Clarification and Requests for Documents. Signed by Judge Janis L. Sammartino on 6/4/2018. (All non-registered users served via U.S. Mail Service)(Copy of Docket/R&R Mailed)(mpl).

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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STEVIE J. STEVENSON,
CDCR #K-16324,

Case No.: 16-CV-03079 JLS (PCL)
ORDER RE MOTION FOR
CLARIFICATION AND REQUESTS
FOR DOCUMENTS

Plaintiff,

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vs.

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(ECF No. 58)

JEFFREY BEARD, PhD, Secretary of
CDCR, et al.,

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Defendants.

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Plaintiff has filed a Motion for Clarification Regarding Timely Filing of Objections

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to Magistrate’s Report & Recommendation; Request for Copy of Magistrate’s Report and

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Recommendation; Request for Copy of Docket Sheet, (ECF No. 58).

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Regarding Plaintiff’s clarification request: Plaintiff has filed objections to

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Magistrate Judge Lewis’s Report & Recommendation (“R&R”), (ECF No. 55), and the

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Court has taken the matter under submission. Plaintiff will receive an order from the Court

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in due course.

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Regarding Plaintiff’s request for documents, Plaintiff states he still has not received

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“an official” copy of the R&R. He states he is having problems receiving mail and does

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not know if certain motions of his have been ruled on. He requests a copy of the R&R and

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a copy of the docket in this matter. Plaintiff is cautioned that his IFP status does not include
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the right to have documents photocopied and provided to him at government expense. See

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e.g., In re Richard, 914 F.2d 1526, 1527 (6th Cir. 1990) (28 U.S.C. § 1915 “does not give

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the litigant a right to have documents copied and returned to him at government expense.”);

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Tedder v. Odel, 890 F.2d 210, 211 (9th Cir. 1989) (28 U.S.C. § 1915 does not waive costs

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of litigation other than the filing of the complaint and service of process). Nevertheless,

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the Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s Request. The Clerk SHALL send Plaintiff a copy of

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Magistrate Judge Lewis’s R&R, (ECF No. 47), as well as a copy of the docket in this

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matter.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: June 4, 2018

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