Case: 18-50575 Document: 00514828390 Page: 1 Date Filed: 02/08/2019
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
No. 18-50575
FILED
February 8, 2019
Summary Calendar
Lyle W. Cayce
Clerk
BLAYNE D. WILLIAMS, SR.
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
CITY OF AUSTIN; ART ACEVEDO, former Chief of Police, in his official and
individual capacities; ANN SPIEGEL, in her official and individual capacities;
MICHAEL CRONIG, in his official and individual capacities; ANDREA-LEE
LLOYD, in her official and individual capacities; BASIL ALI, in his official and
individual capacities; CAREY GRACE, in her official capacity,
Defendants-Appellees
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Western District of Texas
USDC No. 1:17-CV-1213
Before JOLLY, COSTA, and HO, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM: *
Blayne Williams sued the City of Austin for the sixth time over his 2015
termination from a job with its police department. The City filed a motion to
dismiss. Two months elapsed without Williams filing a response even though
* Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH
CIR. R. 47.5.4.
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the court’s rules required a response within 14 days of the motion’s filing.
Williams also did not respond to the City’s repeated attempts to confer about
a scheduling conference.
As a result of Williams’s failure to prosecute the case, the district court
dismissed it under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b). The district court
also ordered that Williams not file additional lawsuits without first obtaining
permission from the district court or the court of appeals. Williams’s brief is
not directed at these rulings, but instead repeats his allegations about
wrongdoing by the police chief and other city officials. In any event, we find
no abuse of discretion by the district court.
AFFIRMED.
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