Thompson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA ----oo0oo---- 8 FELICIA THOMPSON, INDIVIDUALLY No. 2:18-cv-02422 WBS KJN

AND AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST OF

KEITH AUSTIN THOMPSON, Plaintiffs, ORDER v. NARINDER SAUKHLA, M.D.; RUTH

PORTUGAL; SILOCHANA NAIDOO;

BRIAN BRIGGS; MONICA R. CORTEZ;

ANDRES D. GALVAN; BETHLEHEM

HAILE, M.D.; et al.,

16 Defendants.

18 ----oo0oo---- 19 Before the court are the bills of costs of defendant 20 Portugal (Docket No. 99) and defendants Saukhla and Briggs 21 (Docket No. 100). 22 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(d)(1) provides that 23 “[u]nless a federal statute, these rules, or a court order 24 provides otherwise, costs--other than attorney’s fees--should be 25 allowed to the prevailing party.” While this Rule creates “a 26 presumption for awarding costs to prevailing parties,” Save Our 27 Valley v. Sound Transit, 335 F.3d 932, 944 (9th Cir. 2003) 28 (citations omitted), it “vests in the district court discretion to refuse to award costs.” Ass'n of Mexican-Am. Educators v. State…