(PC) Doe v. Johnson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JANE DOE, No. 2:24-cv-01542-DJC-AC Plaintiff, v. ORDER

MARCUS JOHNSON, et al.,

Defendant.

Presently before the Court is Plaintiff’s ex parte Motion to Proceed under a Pseudonym. Plaintiff seeks to proceed under a pseudonym as the case involves allegations of sexual abuse which raise issues of privacy and safety of Plaintiff. For the reasons stated below, the Court grants Plaintiff’s Motion (ECF No. 2). LEGAL STANDARD “The normal presumption in litigation is that parties must use their real names.” Doe v. Kamehameha Schools/Bernice Pauahi Bishop Est., 596 F.3d 1036, 1042 (9th Cir. 2010); see also Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a) (“[t]he title of the complaint must name all the parties”); Fed. R. Civ. P. 17(a)(1) (“An action must be prosecuted in the name of the

1 Plaintiff did not file this motion explicitly as an ex parte request. However, it was filed without being noticed on the…