Ward
Ward v. Lawrence
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ANJALI WARD, et al., Case No. 19-cv-00183-JST
Plaintiffs,
ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR
v. EXTENSION OF TIME AND
MOTIONS FOR WRIT OF HABEAS
JUDITH ELIZABETH LAWRENCE, et al., CORPUS Defendants. Re: ECF No. 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146
12 This is a civil rights case brought by Plaintiffs Anjali Ward and Lila Cast, who allege violations of the Indian Child Welfare Act. On August 2, 2022, the Court dismissed Plaintiffs’ amended complaint for failure to comply with Rule 8 and ordered Plaintiffs to file an amended complaint within 28 days. ECF No. 129 at 3. The Court then granted Plaintiffs three extensions of that deadline, totaling an additional 126 days. ECF Nos. 133, 136, 140. The Court’s latest order, which extended the deadline to January 3, 2023, explicitly warned that “[n]o further extensions will be granted.” Id. On January 3, Plaintiffs filed six documents: (1) a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed on…