BARBARA MOSES, Magistrate Judge.
Pro se plaintiff Anton F. Liverpool filed this § 1983 action on February 13, 2018. At the time, he was incarcerated on Rikers Island. (Dkt. No. 1.) Since then, despite numerous orders directing him to promptly update the Court if and when his address changes (see Dkt. Nos. 7, 16, 37, 48, 53, 61), plaintiff has repeatedly failed to provide timely notification of his changes of address. (See Dkt. Nos. 48, 53, 56, 59.) These failures have resulted in several orders and other filings sent to plaintiff being returned as undeliverable, and have frequently left both the Court and counsel for defendants uncertain about how to contact plaintiff.
Most recently, plaintiff filed a letter dated January 27, 2020, requesting certain information and reporting (among other things) that he would be released from custody at the Intake Center, P.O. Box 8249, Cranston, RI 02920 (the Intake Center) on or about February 2, 2020. (Dkt. No. 67.) However, he failed to inform the Court what his new contact information would be after his release. On February 4, 2020, the Court issued an Order (Dkt. No. 68) directing defendants to respond to the substance of plaintiff's letter, and mailed that Order to plaintiff at the Intake Center as well as to another address in Rhode Island which plaintiff had previously provided the Court. (See Dkt. No. 51.) The copy of the Order that the Court mailed to the Intake Center was returned as undeliverable on February 26, 2020.
Meanwhile, on February 7, 2020, defendants filed a letter-motion (Dkt. No. 69) responding to the substance of plaintiff's January 27, 2020 letter, and requesting that the Court reopen fact discovery (which expired on December 20, 2019, without any party having requested an extension, see Dkt. Nos. 63, 68), "for sixty (60) days after such time as plaintiff updates his address with the Court." Defendants could not serve their February 7, 2020 letter on plaintiff because they did not know where to mail it.
As of today's date, plaintiff has still not updated his address with the Court. However, publicly-available information indicates that, while plaintiff was released from the Intake Center on February 2, 2020, he was re-incarcerated there on March 4, 2020, for a period of 90 days, as a result of a disorderly conduct charge. Inmate Search, State of Rhode Island Department of Corrections, http://www.doc.ri.gov/inmate_search/search_details.php?inmateid=155581 (last visited March 12, 2020).
In light of plaintiff's apparent return to the Intake Center, and of the various outstanding issues raised by the parties' letters dated January 27 and February 7, 2020 (Dkt. Nos. 67, 69), this action is scheduled for a status conference, via telephone, on
It is hereby
Defendants' counsel must: (1) send this Order to the Warden immediately; (2) contact the Intake Center to arrange the call and ensure that plaintiff will be able to dial-in to the below dial-in number at the above time and date; and (3) telephone chambers using the following dial-in information on
The Clerk of Court is respectfully directed to mail a copy of (1) this Order, (2) the docket sheet in this action, and (3) defendants' letter-motion dated February 7, 2020 (Dkt. No. 69), to the plaintiff at the address listed on the docket.