Friddle v. CoreCivic et al

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA
Danny Friddle,
Plaintiff,
v.
CoreCivic, et al.,
Defendants.
No. CV-23-02414-PHX-KML (CDB)
ORDER
Plaintiff Danny Friddle seeks reconsideration of the order denying his request for
an injunction and denying his request to amend his complaint to identify the Doe
defendants. (Doc. 153.) The court rejected Friddle’s request for an injunction because he
had not shown any active interference with his ability to litigate this case. Friddle’s motion
for reconsideration still does not present convincing evidence of such interference, so
reconsideration is denied on that issue.
Friddle also does not present a sufficient basis to reconsider the denial of his
untimely request to amend his complaint to identify the Doe defendants. According to
Friddle, he waited to file his motion to amend because he believed the case had been stayed.
(Doc. 153 at 3-4.) But a motion for reconsideration “may not be used to raise arguments or
present evidence for the first time when they could reasonably have been raised earlier in
the litigation.” Kona Enters., Inc. v. Est. of Bishop, 229 F.3d 877, 890 (9th Cir. 2000).
Friddle did not make this stay-misapprehension argument in his motion to amend (Doc.
128), nor in his reply (Doc. 141), so reconsideration based on this new argument is not
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appropriate. In addition, between Friddle’s October 29, 2025 deadline to seek amendment
and the filing of the motion to amend on January 30, 2026, Friddle filed many other
documents and motions (Doc. 115, 119, 120, 122), demonstrating he had ample time,
access to resources, and awareness to seek amendment earlier but failed to do so.
IT IS ORDERED the Motion for Reconsideration (Doc. 153) is DENIED.
Dated this 29th day of April, 2026.
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