From Casetext: Smarter Legal Research

Rochester v. Rowe

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Mar 7, 2012
471 F. App'x 642 (9th Cir. 2012)

Opinion

No. 10-17772 D.C. No. 3:08-cv-04747-RS

03-07-2012

MICHAEL SHAWN ROCHESTER, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. LINDA ROWE, MD; et al., Defendants - Appellees.


NOT FOR PUBLICATION


MEMORANDUM

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.


Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Northern District of California

Richard Seeborg, District Judge, Presiding

Before: FERNANDEZ, McKEOWN, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

California state prisoner Michael Shawn Rochester appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action for failure to prosecute. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review for an abuse of discretion. Ash v. Cvetkov, 739 F.2d 493, 495 (9th Cir. 1984). We affirm.

The district court did not abuse its discretion by dismissing the action without prejudice after it warned Rochester that failure to file an amended complaint could result in dismissal, and granted an extension of time to comply with its order. See id. at 496-97 (listing factors to consider before dismissing an action for lack of prosecution and explaining that "[a] relatively brief period of delay is sufficient to justify" a dismissal without prejudice for failure to prosecute).

We do not consider Rochester's contentions concerning the district court's order granting defendants' motion to dismiss. See id. at 497-98 (interlocutory orders are not appealable after dismissal without prejudice for failure to prosecute).

AFFIRMED.


Summaries of

Rochester v. Rowe

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Mar 7, 2012
471 F. App'x 642 (9th Cir. 2012)
Case details for

Rochester v. Rowe

Case Details

Full title:MICHAEL SHAWN ROCHESTER, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. LINDA ROWE, MD; et al.…

Court:UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

Date published: Mar 7, 2012

Citations

471 F. App'x 642 (9th Cir. 2012)

Citing Cases

Rieken v. Timberland Bank

By analogy, courts have routinely found a failure to prosecute when a party is required, but fails, to file…

Freeman v. Berryhill

Id. at 496-97. Accord Rochester v. Rowe, 471 F. Appx. 642 (9th Cir. 2012). Here, as in Ash, the five factors…