Bick

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CARL ECKSTROM, No. 2:23-cv-01488-TLN-AC Plaintiff, v. ORDER JOSEPH BICK, et al., Defendants. 16 On October 9, 2024, this Court adopted the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations that Plaintiff had sustained three prior “strikes” before filing the present civil rights action. On October 21, 2024, Plaintiff filed a motion for reconsideration. I. Standards For Motions To Reconsider Although motions to reconsider are directed to the sound discretion of the Court, Frito- Lay of Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Canas, 92 F.R.D. 384, 390 (D.C. Puerto Rico 1981), considerations of judicial economy weigh heavily in the process. Thus, Local Rule 230(j) requires that a party seeking reconsideration of a district court’s order must brief the “new or different facts or circumstances [which] were not shown upon such prior motion, or what other grounds exist for the motion.” Id. The rule derives from the “law of the case”…