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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JEFFREY M. DANIELS 

Plaintiff,

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 SERGEANT HILDREDGE, 

Defendants. _____________________________

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No. C 04-1160 JSW (PR)

ORDER OF DISMISSAL WITHOUT

PREJUDICE

Plaintiff, a prisoner of the State of California, currently incarcerated at California

State Prison-Los Angeles, filed this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983,

complaining of deliberate indifference to his safety while incarcerated at Salinas Valley

State Prison ("SVSP"). On September 21, 2006, this Court granted summary judgment

as to two of the three Defendants and ordered the Clerk to reissue a summons and the

U.S. Marshal (“USM”) to again attempt service on Defendant Hildredge, the remaining

Defendant in this action. 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(m) contemplates that service of process

normally will be accomplished within four months of the filing of the complaint. 

Although the Court can have the USM serve process on a named defendant, it is the

plaintiff's responsibility to provide a current address for each defendant to be served. 

After the Court and the USM made numerous attempts to effect service on

Defendant Hildredge at Salinas Valley State Prison and again at the Parole, Region II

office, where he was no longer working and to obtain a current address for him, the

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Court notified Plaintiff on June 20, 2007, that he must provide to the Court no later thirty

days from the date of the order a current service address for Defendant Hildredge. 

Plaintiff was notified that if he did not provide such an address, Hildredge would be

dismissed without prejudice from this action. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m); Walker v.

Sumner, 14 F.3d 1415, 1422 (9th Cir. 1994).

Subsequent to the date of that order, this Court sent a letter to the Legal Affairs

Department of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, requesting a

forwarding address for Hildredge, who was no longer working at either Salinas Valley or

Parole, Region II. On July 11, 2007, the Court received a response from Staff Attorney

Alan Sewell, informing the Court that no forwarding address could be located for

Defendant Hildridge. Because the letter misspelled this Defendant’s surname, the Court

Clerk contacted Sewell, who informed the Court that no forwarding address was on file

for Defendant Hildredge, under either spelling.

Since the Court’s order of June 20, 2007, Plaintiff also filed a notice with the

Court that he had no current address or other information by which the USM could make

further service attempts on Defendant Hildredge. As such, the case is dismissed without

prejudice. The Clerk shall enter judgment and close the file. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: September 5, 2007 

 

JEFFREY S. WHITE

United States District Judge

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DANIELS,

Plaintiff,

 v.

MANDEVILLE et al,

Defendant. /

Case Number: CV04-01160 JSW 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. District

Court, Northern District of California.

That on September 5, 2007, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by placing

said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by

depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office

delivery receptacle located in the Clerk's office.

Jeffrey M. Daniels

C05131

CSP-Lancaster

P.O Box 8457

A1-248

Lancaster, CA 93539-8457

Julianne Mossler

Attorney at Law

455 Golden Gate Ave., Suite 11000

San Francisco, CA 94102

Dated: September 5, 2007

Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

By: Jennifer Ottolini, Deputy Clerk

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