(PC) Israel v. Carter ( 2023 )

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 AKIVA ISRAEL, No. 2: 21-cv-1267 DAD KJN P 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 RUBY CARTER, 15 Defendant. 16 17 Plaintiff is a state prisoner, proceeding in forma pauperis and without counsel, with a civil 18 rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Pending before the court is plaintiff’s request for a 19 copy of her deposition transcript. For the reasons stated herein, plaintiff’s request is denied. 20 On May 10, 2023, defendant filed a summary judgment motion. (ECF No. 77.) On June 21 21, 2023, the undersigned granted plaintiff a thirty days extension of time to file an opposition to 22 defendant’s summary judgment motion. (ECF No. 80.) On July 10, 2023, plaintiff filed a request 23 for a copy of her deposition transcript, docketed as “opposition” to defendant’s summary 24 judgment motion. (ECF No. 81.) 25 In the pending request, plaintiff states that defendant used “misleading excerpts” from 26 plaintiff’s transcript in support of the summary judgment motion. (Id. at 1.) Plaintiff states that 27 she cannot afford to purchase the deposition transcript. (Id.) Plaintiff claims that she cannot 28 adequately oppose defendant’s summary judgment motion without her deposition transcript. (Id.) 1 | Plaintiff requests that she be provided with a copy of her deposition transcript free of charge. 2) dd.) 3 The law does not require that plaintiff be provided a free copy of her deposition transcript 4 | unless she paid for a copy, and defendant is under no obligation to provide plaintiff with a free 5 || copy of the transcript. Furthermore, plaintiff's in forma pauperis status does not authorize the 6 || expenditure of public funds for deposition transcripts. 28 U.S.C. § 1915; Tedder v. Odel, 890 7 || F.2d 210, 211-12 (9th Cir. 1989) (per curiam) (“[T]he expenditure of public funds [on behalf of 8 | an indigent litigant] is properly only when authorized by Congress”) (quoting United States v. 9 || MacCollom, 426 U.S. 317, 321 (1976)). For these reasons, plaintiff's request for a copy of her 10 || deposition transcript is denied. 11 Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 12 1. Plaintiffs request for a copy of her deposition transcript (ECF No. 81) is denied; 13 2. Plaintiff is granted an extension of thirty days from the date of this order to file her 14 || opposition to defendant’s summary judgment motion; no further requests for extension of time 15 | will be granted. 16 || Dated: July 17, 2023 Aectl Aharon 18 KENDALL J. NE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 19 20 21 22 Is1267.dep(4) 23 24 25 26 27 28