Morton v. Johanson et al

Filing 19

ORDER DIRECTING SERVICE by E-Service to Ronnie Rucker; and mailed on 12/5/16 to WA State Attorney General's office. Signed by Magistrate Judge Karen L Strombom. **5 PAGE(S), PRINT ALL**(Cecil Morton, Prisoner ID: 725136)(CMG)

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1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 6 7 8 CECIL MORTON, Plaintiff, 9 v. CASE NO. C16-5728 RJB-KLS ORDER DIRECTING SERVICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT 10 VANESA JOHANSON, et al., 11 Defendants. 12 13 This is a civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff is proceeding 14 with this action pro se and in forma pauperis. Plaintiff is currently incarcerated at the Stafford 15 Creek Corrections Center and is subject to Mandatory Electronic E-Filing pursuant to General 16 Orders 02-15 and 06-16. The Court, having reviewed plaintiff’s supplemental complaint, hereby 17 ORDERS as follows: 18 (1) 19 The Clerk is directed to send the following to Ronnie L. Rucker by e-mail, a copy of Service by Clerk 20 plaintiff’s supplemental complaint, plaintiff’s complaint, a copy of this Order, the notice of 21 lawsuit and request for waiver of service of summons, and a waiver of service of summons. 22 23 ORDER DIRECTING SERVICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT - 1 1 (2) 2 Defendant(s) shall have thirty (30) days within which to return the enclosed waiver of Response Required 3 service of summons. A defendant who timely returns the signed waiver shall have sixty (60) 4 days after the date designated on the notice of lawsuit to file and serve an answer to the 5 complaint or a motion permitted under Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 6 A defendant who fails to timely return the signed waiver will be personally served with a 7 summons and complaint, and may be required to pay the full costs of such service, pursuant to 8 Rule 4(d)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. A defendant who has been personally 9 served shall file an answer or motion permitted under Rule 12 within thirty (30) days after 10 service. 11 (3) 12 All attorneys admitted to practice before this Court are required to file documents Filing and Service by Parties, Generally 13 electronically via the Court’s CM/ECF system. Counsel are directed to the Court’s website, 14 www.wawd.uscourts.gov, for a detailed description of the requirements for filing via CM/ECF. 15 Plaintiff shall file all documents electronically. All filings must indicate in the upper right hand 16 corner the name of the magistrate judge to whom the document is directed. 17 Any document filed with the Court must be accompanied by proof that it has been served 18 upon all parties that have entered a notice of appearance in the underlying matter. Plaintiffs shall 19 indicate the date the document is submitted for e-filing as the date of service. 20 (4) 21 Any request for court action shall be set forth in a motion, properly filed and served. Motions, Generally 22 Pursuant to LCR 7(b), any argument being offered in support of a motion shall be submitted as a 23 part of the motion itself and not in a separate document. The motion shall include in its caption ORDER DIRECTING SERVICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT - 2 1 (immediately below the title of the motion) a designation of the date the motion is to be noted for 2 consideration upon the Court’s motion calendar. 3 Stipulated and agreed motions, motions to file over-length motions or briefs, motions for 4 reconsideration, joint submissions pursuant to the option procedure established in LCR 37(a)(2), 5 motions for default, requests for the clerk to enter default judgment, and motions for the court to 6 enter default judgment where the opposing party has not appeared shall be noted for 7 consideration on the day they are filed. See LCR 7(d)(1). All other non-dispositive motions 8 shall be noted for consideration no earlier than the third Friday following filing and service of the 9 motion. See LCR 7(d)(3). All dispositive motions shall be noted for consideration no earlier 10 than the fourth Friday following filing and service of the motion. Id. 11 For electronic filers, all briefs and affidavits in opposition to either a dispositive or non- 12 dispositive motion shall be filed and served not later than 11:59 p.m. on the Monday 13 immediately preceding the date designated for consideration of the motion. 14 The party making the motion may electronically file and serve not later than 11:59 p.m. 15 on the date designated for consideration of the motion, a reply to the opposing party’s briefs and 16 affidavits. 17 (5) 18 Parties filing motions to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Civil Motions to Dismiss and Motions for Summary Judgment 19 Procedure and motions for summary judgment pursuant to Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil 20 Procedure should acquaint themselves with those rules. As noted above, these motions shall be 21 noted for consideration no earlier than the fourth Friday following filing and service of the 22 motion. 23 ORDER DIRECTING SERVICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT - 3 1 Defendants filing motions to dismiss based on a failure to exhaust or motions for 2 summary judge are advised that they MUST serve a Rand notice concurrently with motions to 3 dismiss based on a failure to exhaust and motions for summary judgment so that pro se prisoner 4 plaintiffs will have fair, timely and adequate notice of what is required of them in order to 5 oppose those motions. Woods v. Carey, 684 F.3d 934, 941 (9th Cir. 2012). The Ninth Circuit 6 has set forth model language for such notices: 7 A motion for summary judgment under Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will, if granted, end your case. 8 Rule 56 tells you what you must do in order to oppose a motion for summary judgment. Generally, summary judgment must be granted when there is no genuine issue of material fact – that is, if there is no real dispute about any fact that would affect the result of your case, the party who asked for summary judgment is entitled to judgment as a matter of law, which will end your case. When a party you are suing makes a motion for summary judgment that is properly supported by declarations (or other sworn testimony), you cannot simply rely on what your complaint says. Instead, you must set out specific facts in declarations, depositions, answers to interrogatories, or authenticated documents, as provided in Rule 56(e), that contradict the facts shown in the defendant’s declarations and documents and show that there is a genuine issue of material fact for trial. If you do not submit your own evidence in opposition, summary judgment, if appropriate, may be entered against you. If summary judgment is granted, your case will be dismissed and there will be no trial. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Rand v. Rowland, 154 F.3d 952, 963 (9th Cir. 1998) (emphasis added). 18 Defendants who fail to file and serve the required Rand notice on plaintiff may have their 19 motion stricken from the Court’s calendar with leave to re-file. 20 (6) 21 No direct communication is to take place with the District Judge or Magistrate Judge with Direct Communications with District Judge or Magistrate Judge 22 regard to this case. All relevant information and papers are to be directed to the Clerk. 23 ORDER DIRECTING SERVICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT - 4 1 (7) The Clerk is directed to send a copy of this Order to plaintiff. The Clerk is further 2 directed send a copy of this Order and a courtesy copy of plaintiff’s supplemental complaint to 3 the Washington State Attorney General’s Office by first class mail. 4 Dated this 5th day of December, 2016. 5 A 6 Karen L. Strombom United States Magistrate Judge 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ORDER DIRECTING SERVICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT - 5

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