Bryan

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 United States of America, No. 2:22-cv-01962-KJM-AC Plaintiff, ORDER v. Mark Linn Bryan, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 The United States brings this action to enforce a federal tax lien against pro se defendant Mark Linn Bryan and other defendants. See generally Compl., ECF No. 1. Instead of filing a 19 responsive pleading under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 7 and 8, Mr. Bryan submitted a document titled “Conditional Acceptance of Summons in a Civil Case No. 2:22-CV-01962-AC,” which the court refers to as his “conditional acceptance” for convenience—without acknowledging he has “accepted” anything. See Conditional Acceptance at 1, ECF No. 14. The government responded by characterizing the filing as a motion for a more definite statement 24 under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(e) and urging the court to deny the motion. See U.S. Resp. at 2, ECF No. 29. As explained in the…