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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

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN HARDNEY,

Plaintiff,

v.

G. PHILLIPS, et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:13-cv-2371 TLN CKD P

ORDER

Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with this civil rights action pursuant to 42 

U.S.C. § 1983. By order filed February 19, 2014, the court determined that service of the 

complaint was appropriate for Phillips, Yang, Fernandez and Mazyek, and ordered plaintiff to 

provide information for service of process on these defendants. Plaintiff has filed the required 

papers. On April 3, 2014, the district court adopted the February 19, 2014 findings and 

recommendations dismissing two defendants. Typically the undersigned would order service on 

the remaining three defendants at this time.

However, plaintiff recently filed a First Amended Complaint that appears largely 

duplicative of the original complaint (ECF No. 16). Plaintiff may amend his complaint once as a 

matter of right before service of a responsive pleading by defendants. Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a). An 

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amended complaint supersedes prior complaints. Forsyth v. Humana, Inc., 114 F.3d 1467, 1474 

(9th Cir. 1997); King v. Atiyeh, 814 F.2d 565, 567 (9th Cir. 1987). Plaintiff will be granted 

fourteen days to inform the court whether he wishes to (1) proceed with service of the original 

complaint on defendants, or (2) abandon the original complaint in favor of the First Amended 

Complaint, which the court will proceed to screen.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that within fourteen days from the date of this 

order, plaintiff will inform the court whether he wishes to proceed with service of the original 

complaint or stand on the First Amended Complaint. 

Dated: April 23, 2014

2 / hard2371.amend

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CAROLYN K. DELANEY

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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