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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

JOHN E. MITCHELL,

Plaintiff,

v.

J. BEARD, et al.,

Defendants.

_____________________________________/

Case No. 1:15-cv-01512 DLB PC

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR 

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

[ECF No. 4]

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS 

DEFENDANTS

[ECF No. 9]

Plaintiff John E. Mitchell, a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, filed 

this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on October 5, 2015.

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 On October 8, 2015, 

Plaintiff filed a motion for preliminary injunction. On October 27, 2015, Plaintiff filed a motion 

to dismiss certain defendants from his complaint. 

The motion for preliminary injunction must be denied. As a threshold matter, Plaintiff 

must demonstrate he has standing to seek preliminary injunctive relief. Summers v. Earth Island 

Institute, 555 U.S. 488, 493, 129 S.Ct. 1142 (2009); Mayfield v. United States, 599 F.3d 964, 969 

(9th Cir. 2010). “[The] triad of injury in fact, causation, and redressability constitutes the core of 

Article III’s case-or-controversy requirement, and the party invoking federal jurisdiction bears the 

burden of establishing its existence.” Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Env’t, 523 U.S. 83, 103-04, 

118 S.Ct. 1003 (1998); Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560-61, 112 S.Ct. 2130 

(1992). This requires Plaintiff to “show that he is under threat of suffering an ‘injury in fact’ that 

 

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Plaintiff consented to the jurisdiction of the Magistrate Judge on October 16, 2015.

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is concrete and particularized; the threat must be actual and imminent, not conjectural or 

hypothetical; it must be fairly traceable to challenged conduct of the defendant; and it must be 

likely that a favorable judicial decision will prevent or redress the injury.” Summers, 555 U.S. at 

493; Mayfield, 599 F.3d at 969. 

This action arises out of alleged violations of Plaintiff’s federal rights on March 13, 2014, 

while Plaintiff was temporarily detained at North Kern State Prison (“NKSP”) in Delano, 

California. Plaintiff claims that Defendants at NKSP violated his Fourth Amendment right to 

privacy during a strip search, and his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual 

punishment for the use of certain restraints, for conditions of confinement, and for denial of 

medical care. The pendency of this case does not provide Plaintiff with standing to seek relief 

directed at possible future uses of force, complaints of double housing and confinement away from 

his family, refusals to provide a religious diet, unlawful confiscations or disposals of his personal 

property, improper information contained in his C-File, harassment, or interferences with access to 

courts by individuals at Corcoran State Prison. Summers, 555 U.S. at 493 (citation omitted); 

Lujan, 504 U.S. at 560-61; Mayfield, 599 F.3d at 969. Plaintiff’s inability to meet the “irreducible 

constitutional minimum of standing” with respect to the relief he seeks is fatal to his motion. 

On October 27, 2015, Plaintiff filed a motion to dismiss the following named Defendants 

from his complaint: Sgt. J. Amaya; C/O Huewe; C/O Alford; Gonzalez; Lieutenant Tenorio; C/O 

Rodriguez, and C.R.M. Robicheaux. Plaintiff claims he has not exhausted his claims against these 

Defendants. Good cause having been presented, the Court will grant Plaintiff’s motion.

ORDER

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction 

is DENIED, and his motion to dismiss Defendants Amaya, Huewe, Alford, Gonzalez, Tenorio, 

Rodriguez, and Robicheaux is GRANTED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 3, 2015 /s/ Dennis L. Beck 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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