Filed: Jan. 24, 2020
Latest Update: Jan. 24, 2020
Summary: ORDER JAMES C. MAHAN , District Judge . Presently before the court is Frederick Vernon Williams's ("petitioner") request for extension of time to file responsive pleading. (ECF No. 984). Petitioner represents that that "the North Lake Correctional Facility Law Library recently underwent a computer update and all of [his] pleadings have been lost." Id. at 1. Petitioner further represents that the facility also lacks a typewriter or other means of preparing his brief. Id. As a result, p
Summary: ORDER JAMES C. MAHAN , District Judge . Presently before the court is Frederick Vernon Williams's ("petitioner") request for extension of time to file responsive pleading. (ECF No. 984). Petitioner represents that that "the North Lake Correctional Facility Law Library recently underwent a computer update and all of [his] pleadings have been lost." Id. at 1. Petitioner further represents that the facility also lacks a typewriter or other means of preparing his brief. Id. As a result, pe..
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ORDER
JAMES C. MAHAN, District Judge.
Presently before the court is Frederick Vernon Williams's ("petitioner") request for extension of time to file responsive pleading. (ECF No. 984).
Petitioner represents that that "the North Lake Correctional Facility Law Library recently underwent a computer update and all of [his] pleadings have been lost." Id. at 1. Petitioner further represents that the facility also lacks a typewriter or other means of preparing his brief. Id.
As a result, petitioner requests an extension to redraft and file his reply. Id. Petitioner requests a thirty-day extension, noting that thirty days should be sufficient for the North Lake Correctional Facility to correct its action and to allow defendant sufficient time to thereafter prepare his respons[ive] pleading." Id. at 1-2.
The court finds that petitioner has good cause for an extension of time to file his reply. The court therefore grants his request. Out of an abundance of caution, the court extends petitioner's deadline until March 31, 2020, to ensure that North Lake Correctional Facility has sufficient resources for him to prepare his reply.
Accordingly,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, and DECREED that petitioner's request for extension of time (ECF No. 984) be, and the same hereby is, GRANTED.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that petitioner shall file his reply on or before March 31, 2020.
