Gettings

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JIMMY GETTINGS, No. 2:21-cv-01139-DJC-DB Plaintiff, v. ORDER RYAN KACALEK, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff has filed a motion for leave to amend the complaint. (ECF No. 33.) Plaintiff was previously proceeding pro se in this action but in January 2023 counsel appeared for Plaintiff. ( ECF No. 27.) Following the appearance of Plaintiff’s counsel, on March 14, 2023, District Judge Dale A. Drozd denied Defendants’ prior motion to dismiss without prejudice and ordered the parties to meet and confer and “to do their part to avoid unnecessary motion practice . . . .” (ECF No. 29.) On March 28, 2023, Defendants filed a renewed motion to dismiss that is still pending before the Court. (ECF No. 30.) Plaintiff did not file any response to that motion until June 14, 2023, when a motion to amend the complaint was filed. (ECF No. 33.) Defendants have opposed the motion to amend (ECF No. 34) and Plaintiff filed a reply to…