Opinion
No. 2:10-cv-0397 JAM DAD (PC).
February 15, 2011
ORDER
Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights action for relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
On January 31, 2011, plaintiff filed a document styled as an opposition to defendants' answer. Rule 7 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides as follows:
There shall be a complaint and an answer; a reply to a counterclaim denominated as such; an answer to a cross-claim, if the answer contains a cross-claim; a third-party complaint, if a person who was not an original party is summoned under the provisions of Rule 14; and a third-party answer, if a third-party complaint is served. No other pleading shall be allowed, except that the court may order a reply to an answer or a third-party answer.
Fed.R.Civ.P. 7(a) (emphasis added). The court has not ordered plaintiff to reply to defendants' answer and declines to make such an order.
Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff's opposition to defendants' answer shall be disregarded.
DATED: February 15, 2011.