Hodgson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Eric Hodgson, No. 2:20-cv-00650-KJM-DB Plaintiff, ORDER v. Randle Roper, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 In a previous order, the court dismissed the complaint and granted defendants’ motions for monetary sanctions against plaintiff Eric Hodgson and his counsel, Thomas Barth. See Prev. Order at 15—25, ECF No. 42, reconsideration denied, ECF No. 51. The court permitted 20 defendants to request attorneys’ fees and costs as a sanction. /d. at 25. They have now filed a request, and as explained in this order, the court grants that request in part. 22 I. BACKGROUND The court found in its previous order that Hodgson had forged two California Superior 24 Court orders effectively exonerating him from a previous fraud conviction. Prev. Order at 23. He 25 did this in an attempt to minimize that conviction and persuade the individual defendants to hire him and make him a…