1:10-cv-02050 | D. Colo. | Jan 31, 2011
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 10-cv-02050-CMA-KLM JOSE MEDINA ESCOBAR,
Plaintiff, v. MAJOR C. HOLDITCH, SERGEANT ROBERTS, SERGEANT HALSTEAD, SERGEANT P. BINDER, C/O CRIDER, C/O FERGUSON, C/O MARTIN, C/O COOPER, C/O K. VIALPONDO, C/O ARCHULETA, C/O A. LOMBARD, SERGEANT POOL, and LIEUTENANT T. CHAVEZ, DOCTOR J. WRIGHT, and NURSE PRACTITIONER K. BOYD,
Defendants. _____________________________________________________________________ MINUTE ORDER _____________________________________________________________________ ENTERED BY MAGISTRATE JUDGE KRISTEN L. MIX
This matter is before the Court on Plaintiff’s Motion for Court to Furnish Plaintiff with All Legal Pleadings, Orders, etc. Returned to the Court Since December 23, 2010 by this Facility [Docket No. 39; Filed January 27, 2011] (the “Motion”). Pursuant to the Motion, Plaintiff contends that he was informed by an individual referred to as Officer Ayala that all of his legal mail was returned to the Court from December 24, 2010 to January 19, 2011. Motion [#39] at 2. This assertion is in stark contrast to a notice filed by Plaintiff’s prison facility in two other pending cases, Nos. 09-cv-02207-CMA-KLM and 06-cv-01222- CMA-KLM, wherein the facility informed the Court that since January 12, 2011, Plaintiff had “refused to accept or sign for legal mail from the Court.” Incident Report [Docket No. 287], No. 06-cv-01222-CMA-KLM, and [Docket No. 86], No. 09-cv-02207-CMA-KLM. The facility’s notice is consistent with the Court’s recent experience with Plaintiff in this case. On December 1, 2010, Plaintiff refused to attend his Scheduling Conference when prison staff came to his cell to take him to the conference room. Courtroom Minutes/Minute Order [Docket No. 34]. Although the Court has serious doubts about the veracity of Plaintiff’s Motion,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Motion [#39] is GRANTED . No mail was returned as undeliverable to Plaintiff between December 24, 2010 to January 27, 2011. Nevertheless, the Court wants to be certain that Plaintiff receives its Order and Recommendation on Plaintiff’s Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and/or Preliminary Injunction [Docket No. 36], which was the only document issued by the Court during the period from December 24 to January 27. Accordingly,
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk shall mail a copy of the Order and Recommendation [#36] to Plaintiff. This matter is also before the Court on a letter [Docket No. 40] from Plaintiff seeking a “new packet of § 1983 forms to start over my civil rights complaint and to amend my recently submitted complaint.” The letter was docketed as a Motion and referred to the Court for resolution. The letter does not comply with the Local Rules in several respects, including that it does not contain a certificate of service or case caption, it is not titled as a motion, and it does not provide a legal basis for its request for relief. Furthermore, as the Court has ordered that “Plaintiff shall not attempt to amend his complaint in the future until case deadlines have been set,” Minute Order [Docket No. 16], and Plaintiff did not participate in the Scheduling Conference to set deadlines, Minute Order [#34], it is unlikely that permitting further amendments to Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint [#17] will be appropriate. Finally, regardless of Plaintiff’s in forma pauperis status, he is not entitled to unlimited cost-free copies and forms in this litigation. See Windsor v. Martindale , 175 F.R.D. 665, 670-72 (D. Colo. 1997). The Motion is subject to denial on any basis set forth above. Accordingly,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Motion [#40] is DENIED . IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that from this date forward, Plaintiff shall file separate
motions in each of his pending cases, Case Nos. 06-cv-01222-CMA-KLM, 09-cv-02207- CMA-KLM, and 10-cv-02050-CMA-KLM, and not a single motion listing all three cases in a heading. Failure to comply with this Order will result in non-complying motions being summarily denied. Just as any other litigant with multiple cases, Plaintiff must use discretion in deciding which case a particular issue is best addressed in. If an issue is best addressed in all three cases, Plaintiff must file three separate motions and discuss the relief requested with specificity to each case.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk shall mail a copy of this Minute Order to the case manager for Plaintiff at the Centennial Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 600, Canon City, CO 81215-0600.
Dated: January 31, 2011