(PC) Ruiz v. Northern District of California ( 2022 )

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 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 18 Plaintiff, a prisoner proceeding pro se, brings this civil rights action. Pending 19 before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion, ECF No. 17, for the appointment of counsel. Plaintiff’s 20 motion is written in Spanish. 21 The Court cannot accept submissions in a language other than English. United 22 States v. Rivera-Rosario, 300 F.3d 1, 5 (1st Cir. 2002) (“It is clear, to the point of perfect 23 transparency, that federal court proceedings must be conducted in English.”). Sister courts in the 24 Eastern District have reached the same conclusion. Rodriguez v. Ruiz, No. 2:20-cv-1525-JPD P, 25 2020 WL 5995097, at *1 (E.D. Cal. Oct. 9, 2020). Courts sitting in other districts have also 26 recognized that submissions in federal court must be in English. Arteaga v. Cinram-Technicolor, 27 No. 3:19-cv-00349, 2020 WL 1905176, at *1 (M.D. Tenn. Apr. 17, 2020); Kim v. Chung Sook 28 Lee, No. 18-CV-12230 (CM), 2019 WL 4688692, at *2 (S.D. N.Y. Sept. 24, 2019); Ramirez- 1 Solorio v. United States, No. 1:15-CV-3769-AT-JFK, 2017 WL 2350209, at *1 & n.1 (N.D. Ga. 2 | May 31, 2017). Moreover, courts in this district have rejected (or recognized that they are unable 3 | to consider) submissions that would require translation from a language other than English. 4 | Rodriguez, 2020 WL 5995097, at *1; see Ruiz v. Ehlers, No. 2:21-cv-00146-JAM-JDP (PC), 5 | 2021 WL 2313385, at *1 n.1 (E.D. Cal. May 5, 2021); Ruiz v. Mobert, No.: 1:17-cv-00709-BAM 6 | (PC), 2017 WL 6886093, *1 (E.D. Cal. July 5, 2017) (“As Plaintiff has been previously informed, 7 | the Court cannot provide Plaintiff with translated documents, nor will it translate his documents 8 | from Spanish into English.”’). 9 Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff's motion, ECF No. 17, for 10 | the appointment of counsel is denied without prejudice to resubmission in English. 11 12 | Dated: March 8, 2022 Ssvcqo_ 13 DENNIS M. COTA 14 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28