Gamez
(PC) Goff v. Gamez
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 THOMAS L. GOFF, Case No. 1:15-cv-00937-KES-EPG (PC) 11 Plaintiff, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS DENYING
12 v. PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO REOPEN 13 GAMEZ, et al., AND 14 Defendants. ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S SECOND MOTION TO
REOPEN HIS CASE
16 (Docs. 111, 113, 115, 116) 17 Plaintiff Thomas Goff brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 as a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis1 in 2015. The court initially dismissed the case for failure to prosecute in January 2017, then reopened it in December 2017 on plaintiff’s motion, then dismissed it again for failure to prosecute in November 2019. Doc. 89. Plaintiff appealed to the Ninth Circuit, Case No. 19–17494, which in 2021 held that the Court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing the case. Doc. 109. More than four years after the judgment, on December 11, 2023, Plaintiff asked the Court to reopen the case again. Doc. 111. He sought 25…