Opinion
Civil Action No. 11-cv-00169-CMA-KLM
01-03-2012
JOSE MEDINA ESCOBAR, Plaintiff, v. CAPTAIN H. HUERTAS, LIEUTENANT TITEMAN, SERGEANT FRETWELL, SERGEANT WEST, C/O P. ARCHULETA, C/O SUTER, C/O J. ENGLEHART, and C/O D. JOHNSON, Defendants.
MINUTE ORDER
ENTERED BY MAGISTRATE JUDGE KRISTEN L. MIX
This matter is before the Court on Plaintiff's Motion to Compel [Docket No. 59; Filed December 30, 2011] (the "Motion").
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Motion is DENIED. Construing the Motion liberally as it must, the Court interprets Plaintiff's stated request for relief as seeking an order compelling the Colorado Attorney General's office "to furnish [Plaintiff] with grievance forms and withdrawl-slips [sic], etc." [#49] at 4. Neither the Colorado Attorney General nor his office are parties to this proceeding. As previously explained, the Court has limited authority to grant relief against nonparties, and the circumstances permitting such relief are not present here. [#41] at 4; see Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(d) ("Every order granting an injunction ... binds only ... the parties ... ."); see also Little v. Jones, 607 F.3d 1245, 1251 (10th Cir. 2010) (affirming the denial of a motion for preliminary injunction on the basis that the incarcerated pro se plaintiff had not "alleged that the defendants named in the complaint participated in the alleged deprivations . . . .").