LeMaster v. City of Winnemucca

ORDER

EDWARD C. REED, Jr., Chief Judge.

The defendants have moved to dismiss this case pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12 due to plaintiff’s failure to comply with Fed.R. Civ.P. 4(j). Rule 4(j) reads:

Summons: Time Limit for Service. If a service of the summons and complaint is not made upon a defendant within 120 days after the filing of the complaint and the party on whose behalf such service was required cannot show good cause why such service was not made within that period, the action shall be dismissed as to that defendant without prejudice upon the court’s own initiative with notice to such…