(PC) Ruiz v. Northern District of California ( 2021 )

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 ROGELIO MAY RUIZ, No. 2:20-CV-2025-TLN-DMC-P 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 J. CURRY, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff, a prisoner proceeding pro se, brings this civil rights action. Pending 18 before the Court is Plaintiff’s second motion, ECF No. 15, for the appointment of counsel. 19 Plaintiff’s motion is written in Spanish. 20 The Court cannot accept submissions in a language other than English. United 21 States v. Rivera-Rosario, 300 F.3d 1, 5 (1st Cir. 2002) (“It is clear, to the point of perfect 22 transparency, that federal court proceedings must be conducted in English.”); see also Rodriguez 23 v. Ruiz, No. 2:20-cv-1525-JPD P, 2020 WL 5995097, at *1 (E.D. Cal. Oct. 9, 2020); Arteaga v. 24 Cinram-Technicolor, No. 3:19-cv-00349, 2020 WL 1905176, at *1 (M.D. Tenn. Apr. 17, 2020); 25 Kim v. Chung Sook Lee, No. 18-CV-12230 (CM), 2019 WL 4688692, at *2 (S.D. N.Y. Sept. 24, 26 2019); Ramirez-Solorio v. United States, No. 1:15-CV-3769-AT-JFK, 2017 WL 2350209, at *1 27 & n.1 (N.D. Ga. May 31, 2017). Moreover, courts in this district have rejected (or recognized 28 that they are unable to consider) submissions that would require translation from a language other 1 | than English. See Rodriguez, 2020 WL 5995097, at *1. Plaintiff has been advised of the English 2 | requirement in other cases he has filed in this district. See also Ruiz v. Ehlers, No. 2:21-cv- 3 | 00146-JAM-JDP (PC), 2021 WL 2313385, at *1 n.1 (E.D. Cal. May 5, 2021); Ruiz v. Mobert, 4 | No.: 1:17-cv-00709-BAM (PC), 2017 WL 6886093, *1 (E.D. Cal. July 5, 2017) (“As Plaintiff has 5 | been previously informed, the Court cannot provide Plaintiff with translated documents, nor will 6 | it translate his documents from Spanish into English.”). 7 The Court will sua sponte extends the time for Plaintiff to file a second amended 8 | complaint pursuant to the Court’s November 8, 2021, order. 9 Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 10 1. Plaintiff's motion for the appointment of counsel, ECF No. 15, is denied; 11 | and 12 2. The time for Plaintiff to file a second amended complaint is extended to 30 13 | days from the date of this order. 14 15 || Dated: December 28, 2021 Ssvcqo_ 16 DENNIS M. COTA 17 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28