(PC) Pollard v. Anderson Police Dept
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Kenneth Buford Pollard, III, No. 2:09-cv-1955-KJM-DMC-P Plaintiff, ORDER v. Anderson Police Dept., et al., 1S Defendants. 16 Mr. Pollard filed a complaint in this court July 16, 2009. On March 1, 2021, he moved to 18 reopen this case, which the Clerk’s Office closed after the court warned plaintiff that failure to 19 file an amended complaint may result in dismissal of his case for lack of prosecution and failure 20 to comply with court rules and orders. See Order (Aug. 13, 2010), ECF No. 67; E.D. Cal. L.R. 110. The motion is denied. A motion to reopen a § 1983 case that has been closed by way of dispositive motion is 23 effectively a motion based on Rule 60(b)(6) asking the court to grant relief from a final judgment. 24 See Lal v. California, 610 F.3d 518, 524 (9th Cir. 2010). This relief will be denied unless a party demonstrates “extraordinary circumstances which prevented or…