Opinion
No. CV-06-2395-PHX-PGR (DKD).
February 6, 2008
ORDER
Pending before the Court is the defendants' Motions [sic] for Sanctions (doc. #22), filed November 20, 2007, wherein the defendants seek the dismissal of this civil rights action pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(d) due to the plaintiff's two failures to attend his properly noticed deposition and his failure to respond in any manner to the defendants' two sets of interrogatories and their request for production of documents. The plaintiff has to date failed to respond in any manner to the defendants' properly served motion and his time for doing so under LRCiv 7.2(c) has long since expired. The defendants argue, and the Court concurs, that the record establishes that the plaintiff has abandoned the prosecution of this action.
The plaintiff was incarcerated at the time he commenced this § 1983 action on October 10, 2006. On August 8, 2007, however, the plaintiff filed a change of address that indicated that he was no longer incarcerated. The defendants mailed their notice resetting the plaintiff's deposition to October 18, 2007, their discovery requests, and their motion for sanctions to the plaintiff at his new address.
Having reviewed the record, the Court concludes that the plaintiff's failure to object to the defendants' motion seeking the dismissal of this action should be deemed to be his consent to the granting of the motion and the Court thus finds that the motion should be summarily granted pursuant to LRCiv 7.2(i). Therefore,
LRCiv 7.2(I) provides in relevant part that "if the unrepresented party or counsel does not serve and file the required answering memoranda, . . . such non-compliance may be deemed a consent to the . . . granting of the motion and the Court may dispose of the motion summarily."
IT IS ORDERED that the defendants' Motions [sic] for Sanctions (doc. #22) is granted pursuant to LRCiv 7.2(i) and that this action is dismissed in its entirety with prejudice. The Clerk of the Court shall enter judgment accordingly.