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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NATHANIEL MARCUS GANN, et al.,

 Plaintiffs,

 vs.

VALLEY STATE PRISON, et al.,

 Defendants.

1:19-cv-01797-GSA-PC

ORDER STRIKING CONSENT/DECLINE

FORM FILED BY MANFRED 

SCHOCKNER AS IMPROPERLY FILED 

IN THIS CASE

(ECF No. 14.)

ORDER DIRECTING THE CLERK TO 

SERVE A COPY OF THIS ORDER ON 

MANFRED SCHOCKNER

Nathaniel Marcus Gann (“Plaintiff Gann”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in 

forma pauperis with this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff Gann and 

fourteen co-plaintiffs filed the Complaint commencing this action on December 26, 2019. (ECF 

No. 1.)

Currently, Plaintiff Gann is the sole plaintiff in this case. On January 7, 2020, the court 

issued an order severing Plaintiff Gann’s claims from his fourteen co-plaintiffs’ claims and 

directing the Clerk to open a new case for each of the fourteen co-plaintiffs. (ECF No. 10.) Thus, 

each of the fourteen co-plaintiffs now proceeds with his own case and separate case number. 

Each co-plaintiff was ordered to complete and file in his own case the court’s consent/decline 

form indicating whether he consents to or declines Magistrate Judge jurisdiction. (Id.) 

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On January 27, 2020, one of the co-plaintiffs, Manfred Schockner (“Schockner”), 

erroneously filed a consent/decline form in this case instead of in his own new case. (ECF No. 

14.) Schockner’s consent/decline form in this case shall be stricken from the record as 

improperly filed in this case.1 Schockner is required to file a consent/decline form in his new 

case using his own new case number, if he has not already done so.

Based on the foregoing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. The consent/decline form filed in this case by Manfred Schockner on January 27, 

2020, is STRICKEN from the record as improperly filed in this case; 

2. Manfred Schockner is required to file the court’s consent/decline form in his own 

case, if he has not already done so; and

3. The Clerk is directed to serve a copy of this order on:

Manfred Schockner

G-05416

Valley State Prison

P.O. Box 96

Chowchilla, CA 93610

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 30, 2020 /s/ Gary S. Austin 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

 

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“A document which is ‘stricken’ will not be considered by the Court for any purpose.” (See

First Informational Order, ECF No. 6 at 2:7-8.)

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