Paulo v. Williams

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA

JUSTIN PAULO, Case No. 2:19-cv-00474-APG-NJK 5 Plaintiff, oly. Order BRIAN WILLIAMS, et al., 8 Defendants. 9 On January 5, 2022, the Court ordered Defendants to pay Plaintiff's reasonable expenses 10] in litigating his motion for sanctions and his motion to compel. Docket No. 75. The Court also 11} ordered Plaintiff to submit a motion outlining his reasonable costs associated with litigating the 12] two motions and ordered Defendants to respond to the motion. Jd. at 6. The Court later granted 13} Plaintiff's request to extend the deadline to file his motion outlining his costs and ordered 14] Defendants to respond by February 2, 2022. Docket No. 78. The deadline to respond has expired, 15} see Local Rule 7-2(b), and no response has been filed. See Docket. 16 Plaintiff submits to the Court that his reasonable costs associated with litigating his motions 17] are $3.98 of monetary costs and eight hours of time. Docket No. 77 at 2. He asks the Court to 18] order Defendants to pay a reasonable fee for his time spent litigating. Jd. Plaintiff is a pro se 19} prisoner and is therefore entitled to only his reasonable costs for litigating the motions and not fees 20] for the time he spent litigating the motions. See Pickholtz v. Rainbow Techs., Inc., 284 F.3d 1365, 21} 1376 (9th Cir. 2002) (“Rule 37 does not empower the district court to award attorneys fees to a pro se litigant.”). The Court finds that costs of $3.98 for the supplies used to file the motions are 23] reasonable. Accordingly, Defendants must pay Plaintiff $3.98 no later than February 18, 2022. 24 IT IS SO ORDERED. 25 Dated: February 4, 2022 Nancy J..Koppeé 27 United States.) agistrate Judge 28