Nalls v. Napolean

Filing 13

ORDER granting 12 Motion to Take Deposition from Kenyatta Nalls - Signed by Magistrate Judge Paul J. Komives. (LBar)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
SOUTHERN DIVISION
KENYATTA NALLS (#230196),
Plaintiff,
CASE NO. 2:11-CV-12670
JUDGE ARTHUR J. TARNOW
MAGISTRATE JUDGE PAUL J. KOMIVES
v.
BENNY N. NAPOLEON,
MICHAEL BRANDON,
LINTON DIXON,
TIFFANI JONES,
JACQUELYN FOSTER,
TONYA CHETAM,
JONES,
MAXINE HAWK,
KIMBERLY MAJORS,
THOMAS and
JOHN DOES 1-4,
Defendants.
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ORDER GRANTING WAYNE COUNTY DEFENDANTS’ MAY 28, 2013 MOTION FOR
ORDER ALLOWING THEM TO DEPOSE PLAINTIFF AT THE MDOC’S ST. LOUIS
CORRECTIONAL FACILITY (Doc. Ent. 12)
A.

Background
According to the MDOC’s Offender Tracking Information System (OTIS), plaintiff

Kenyatta Nalls (#230196) is currently incarcerated at the MDOC’s Alger Correctional Facility
(LMF) in Munising, Michigan.1 On June 20, 2011, while incarcerated at the St. Louis
Correctional Facility (SLF), Nalls filed the instant pro se prisoner civil rights complaint against
fourteen (14) defendants: Benny N. Napoleon, Brandon, Dixon, Jones, Foster, Chetam, Jones,

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See www.michigan.gov/corrections, “Offender Search.”

Hawk, Majors, Thomas and John Does 1-4. Doc. Ent. 1 at 1-2. The facts underlying the
complaint stem from the alleged events of March 13, 2010 at the Wayne County Jail (WCJ),
when plaintiff claims his left hand was smashed and crushed by his cell door, and continue
through April 17, 2010. Doc. Ent. 1 at 4-11 ¶¶ 1-73.2
The Court has dismissed defendant Benny Napoleon. Doc. Ent. 5. Defendants Jacquelyn
Foster, Tonya Chetam, Tiffani Jones, Maxine Hawk, Kimberly Majors, Michael Brandon and
Linton Dixon have appeared. See Doc. Entries 7 and 8. By way of my May 21, 2013 order,
plaintiff has until June 14, 2013 by which to adequately identify Wayne County Sheriff Deputy
Corporal Jones and Wayne County Jail Nurse Thomas, as well as John Does 1-4. Doc. Ent. 10.
B.

Instant Motion
On November 8, 2011, Judge Tarnow referred this case to me for pretrial matters. Doc.

Ent. 9. Currently before the Court is the Wayne County defendants’ May 28, 2013 Fed. R. Civ.
P. 30(a)(2)(B) motion for an order allowing them to depose plaintiff Kenyatta Nalls at SRF.
Doc. Ent. 12.
C.

Order
Upon consideration, the Wayne County defendants’ May 28, 2013 motion for an order

allowing them to depose plaintiff Kenyatta Nalls at the MDOC’s St. Louis Correctional Facility
(Doc. Ent. 12) is GRANTED. The Wayne County defendants may depose plaintiff Kenyatta
Nalls (#230196) in the state facility in which he is currently confined; such deposition may be

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Among the sentences Nalls is serving are those imposed on September 30, 2010 for March
5, 2010 offenses. See Case No. 10-003122-01-FC (Wayne County).
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stenographically recorded and shall otherwise be conducted in accordance with the rules of this
Court; and such deposition shall take place upon reasonable notice to all parties.
The attention of the parties is drawn to Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(a), which provides a period of
fourteen (14) days from the date of service of this Order within which to file any written appeal
to the District Judge as may be permissible under 28 U.S.C. 636(b)(1).

Dated: May 28, 2013

s/ Paul J. Komives
PAUL J. KOMIVES
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

PROOF OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that a copy of this Order was served up on Kenyatta Nalls and Counsel
of Record on this date.
Dated: May 28, 2013

s/ Lisa C. Bartlett
Case Manager

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