Santoro

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

9 KRISTIN HARDY, Case No. 1:21-cv-00327-DAD-EPG (PC) 10 Plaintiff, ORDER HOLDING MOTION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT IN ABEYANCE v.

R. MORENO, et al., (ECF No. 50)

13 Defendants. 14 15 Kristin Hardy (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On March 28, 2022, Plaintiff filed a motion for default judgment against defendant Ceballos (ECF No. 50), which is now before the Court. No party has filed an opposition to Plaintiff’s motion, and the deadline to do so has now expired. See Local Rule 230(l). Nevertheless, for the following reasons, the Court will hold the motion in abeyance. This case is proceeding on Plaintiff’s unreasonable search and seizure claims against defendants Valencia, Moreno, Chavez, Dohs, and Ceballos, based on Plaintiff’s allegations that after Plaintiff was subjected to a full body scan, he was immediately subjected to an additional strip search without obvious…