Rhodes

1 2 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 4 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 6 7 KAVIN MAURICE RHODES, Case No. 20-cv-03128-PJH

8 Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

9 v. LEAVE TO FILE A SECOND MOTION

FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

10 D. FORD, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 128 Defendants. 11

12 13 14 This is a civil rights case brought pro se by a state prisoner under 42 U.S.C. § 15 1983. Defendant has filed a motion for leave to file a second summary judgment motion. 16 See Dkt. 128. Defendant’s first summary judgment motion was granted in part and 17 denied in part, and the case proceeded on plaintiff’s retaliation claim against defendant 18 Ford regarding an incident on January 16, 2020. Specifically, the court concluded that 19 plaintiff had raised a genuine issue of material fact as to whether Ford was made aware 20 that he was the subject of plaintiff’s grievance and issued a false Rules Violation Report 21 (“RVR”) as retaliation. See Dkt. 103. 22 In particular, the court cited an argument made in plaintiff’s opposition brief, that 23 defendant Ford was…