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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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Absent a showing of imminent danger of serious physical injury, plaintiff is ineligible to proceed in forma 1

pauperis in this action because he has had at least three previous actions dismissed for failure to state a claim,

frivolousness, or maliciousness. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). The Court takes judicial notice of case numbers 1:06-CV00671-OWW-SMS-P Weaver v. California Correctional Institution Confinement SHU (dismissed July 17, 2006, for

failure to state a claim and frivolousness); 1:06-CV-00775-OWW-LJO-P Weaver v. California Correctional

Institution - Third Watch Sergeant (dismissed July 17, 2006, for failure to state a claim and frivolousness); and 1:06-

CV-00863-OWW-SMS-P Weaver v. California Correctional Institution Law Library (dismissed August 1, 2006, for

failure to state a claim and frivolousness). 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WILLIE WEAVER,

Plaintiff,

v.

EASTERN DISTRICT FRESNO, CLERK OF

COURT JACK L. WAGNER, VICTORIA C.

MINOR, INTERNAL AFFAIRS, 

Defendants.

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Case No. 1:06cv1615 LJO DLB

ORDER DISMISSING ACTION, WITH

PREJUDICE, FOR FAILURE TO STATE 

A CLAIM

(Document 1)

Plaintiff Willie Weaver (“plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights

action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff filed this action on November 13, 2006, but has not

paid the $350.00 filing fee.

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Plaintiff has filed at least one-hundred forty-five actions in this district, the vast majority

of which were filed in 2006, and on November 17, 2006, in case number 1:06-cv-01343-AWIWMW P, Magistrate Judge William Wunderlich issued an order to show cause why plaintiff

should not be declared a vexatious litigant and subjected to a pre-filing review order. Recently,

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the court has dismissed numerous cases based on plaintiff’s concession in his complaint that

exhaustion of his claim had not yet occurred. See e.g., 1:06-cv-01066-AWI-SMS P; 1:06-cv01102-AWI-SMS P; 1:06-cv-01198-AWI-SMS P; 1:06-cv-01204-OWW-SMS P 1:06-cv-01206-

AWI-SMS P.

In this case, plaintiff names “Internal Affairs” and Jack L. Wagner and Victoria C. Minor,

Clerks of Court, as defendants. He appears to allege violations of the First, Eighth, Ninth,

Eleventh and Fourteenth Amendments. Plaintiff alleges that he has sent numerous filings to the

Court, but instead of filing the documents, the Court has returned them to him. As a result, he

contends that his “cases are being thrown out of court.” He requests $50,000 for “conspiracy

violations” and $50,000 as punitive damages. Complaint, at 3.

Plaintiff’s allegations are insufficient to state a claim for relief under section 1983 for

denial of access to the courts, Christopher v. Harbury, 536 U.S. 403, 415 (2002); Lewis v. Casey,

518 U.S. 343, 351 (1996), for imposition of cruel and unusual punishment, Hudson v.

McMillian, 503 U.S. 1, 8-9 (1992); Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U.S. 337, 347 (1981), or for any

other constitutional violation. Plaintiff is abusing the process and wasting this Court’s resources

by filing frivolous civil rights actions. 

Moreover, Court clerks have absolute quasi-judicial immunity from damages for civil

rights violations when they perform tasks that are an integral part of the judicial process. Mullis

v. United States Bankruptcy Court, 828 F.2d 1385 (9th Cir. 1987); Morrison v. Jones, 607 F.2d

1269, 1273 (9th Cir. 1979), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 962 (1980).

Accordingly, this action is DISMISSED, with prejudice, based on plaintiff’s failure to

state a claim upon which relief may be granted.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 1, 2007 /s/ Lawrence J. O'Neill 

b9ed48 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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