Huerta
Huerta v. County of Tulare
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RAMIRO HUERTA, Case No. 1:17-cv-01446-EPG Plaintiff, v. ORDER LIFTING STAY COUNTY OF TULARE, et al., (ECF Nos. 69, 83) Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Ramiro Huerta (“Plaintiff”), proceeding through counsel, initiated this action on October 25, 2017. (ECF No. 1.) The case proceeds against Defendants County of Tulare, Tulare County Sheriff, Ronald Smith, Michael Coldren, James Dillon, Laura Torres-Salcido, Hector Hernandez, Salvador Ceja (collectively, “Defendants”), and unknown Tulare County Sheriff’s Deputies named as Does 7-50 and Roes 1-50. (ECF No. 22.) I. BACKGROUND On July 2, 2018, Defendants filed a motion to stay this civil case pending resolution of parallel criminal proceedings against Plaintiff. (ECF No. 31.) In their motion, Defendants represented that trial was set for December 4, 2018. (Id. at 3.) This Court denied the motion to stay based on Plaintiff’s promise, affirmed in the Court’s order, that…