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William Thomas Coats v. T. Kimura
January 11, 2012
WILLIAM THOMAS COATS, PLAINTIFF,
v.
T. KIMURA, ET AL., DEFENDANTS.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Kendall J. Newman United States Magistrate Judge
Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in this civil rights action for relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On January 5, 2012, plaintiff filed a reply to defendant Chambers' answer.*fn1 (Dkt. No. 85.) Rule 7 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides as follows:
There shall be a complaint and an answer; a reply to a counterclaim denominated as such; an answer to a cross-claim, if the answer contains a cross-claim; a third-party complaint, if a person who was not an original party is summoned under the provisions of Rule 14; and a third-party answer, if a third-party complaint is served. No other pleading shall be allowed, except that the court may order a reply to an answer or a third-party answer.
Fed. R. Civ. P. 7(a) (emphasis added). The court has not ordered plaintiff to reply to defendants' answer and declines to make such an order.
Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff's January 5, 2012 reply (dkt. ...