Roberts v. Snohomish County et al

Filing 123

ORDER denying plaintiff's 112 Motion to Extend Dispositive Motion Filing Deadline, signed by Hon. James P. Donohue. **2 PAGE(S), PRINT ALL**(Joe Roberts, Prisoner ID: 394089)(SWT)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON
AT SEATTLE

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JOE J.W. ROBERTS, JR.,
Plaintiff,

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v.
SNOHOMISH COUNTY, et al.,

Case No. C16-1464-TSZ-JPD
ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S
MOTION TO EXTEND THE
DISPOSITIVE MOTION FILING
DEADLINE

Defendants.

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This is a civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This matter comes before

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the Court at the present time on plaintiff’s motion to extend the dispositive motion filing

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deadline. Defendants oppose plaintiff’s motion. The Court, having reviewed plaintiff’s motion,

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and the balance of the record, hereby finds and ORDERS as follows:

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(1)

Plaintiff’s motion to extend the dispositive motion filing deadline (Dkt. 112) is

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DENIED. Plaintiff, by way of the instant motion, seeks a 60 day extension of the dispositive

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motion filing deadline. Plaintiff indicates in his motion that he has recently been on the mental

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health tier and unable to research case law, and that he is unfamiliar with the concept of

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ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION
TO EXTEND THE DISPOSITIVE MOTION
FILING DEADLINE - 1

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dispositive motions. Plaintiff states that he requires additional time to understand if it’s

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necessary to even file such a motion.

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Plaintiff filed the instant action in September 2016, and the Court entered its original

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Pretrial Scheduling Order in December 2016. (See Dkts. 1 and 25.) The original Pretrial

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Scheduling Order established a dispositive motion filing deadline of April 20, 2017. (See Dkt.

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25.) That deadline was stricken in May 2017 when plaintiff was granted leave to amend his

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complaint. (See Dkt. 63 at 5.) The Court issued a new Pretrial Scheduling Order in July 2017,

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and established therein a dispositive motion filing deadline of November 13, 2017. (Dkt. 93.)

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Plaintiff now seeks to push this deadline into January 2018 to decide if he even wants to file a

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motion. The Court agrees with defendants that the fact plaintiff has waited until this late date to

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even contemplate whether he needs to, or wants to, file a dispositive motion in this matter does

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not constitute good cause for extending the deadline.

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(2)

The Clerk shall send copies of this Order to plaintiff, to counsel for defendants,

and to the Honorable Thomas S. Zilly.
DATED this 17th day of November, 2017.

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JAMES P. DONOHUE
Chief United States Magistrate Judge

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ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION
TO EXTEND THE DISPOSITIVE MOTION
FILING DEADLINE - 2