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

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

PAUL LOUIS VENDREDI, a/k/a , ) 

Paul R. Franco ) 

) 

Plaintiff-Appellant , ) 

) 

FI LED 

Uflitc<l States Courr of Appeals 

M.l\R -11990 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

v. ) No . 89-2221 

) 

SHERIFF FRED GIFFORD ; COUNTY ) 

COMMISSIONER VALENTINE ) 

BUSTAMONTE; ATTORNEY GENERAL ) 

HAL STRATTON; COUNTY ) 

COMMISSIONER EDWARD KRETER; ) 

and COUNTY COMMISSIONER ) 

ED BECK, ) 

) 

Defendants-Appellees . ) 

(D . New Mexico) 

(D.C . No . 89-540-JB) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before MCKAY, SEYMOUR, and EBEL, Circuit Judges . 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir . R. 34.1 . 9. Therefore, the case is ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

Appellant appeals from an order of the district court 

d i smissing his complaint under 42 u.s.c. § 1983 as moot. That 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, except 

for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

Appellate Case: 89-2221 Document: 01019965761 Date Filed: 03/01/1990 Page: 1 
complaint sought injunctive relief to correct alleged deficiencies 

at the Luna County Correctional Facility in Deming, New Mexico. 

The court took judicial notice of the fact that the appellant was 

no longer incarcerated at that facility, and dismissed the 

complaint as moot. Appellant asks the court to reverse the 

district court order and remand his case to the district court 

with instructions to allow him to amend his complaint to seek 

damages and otherwise to relate more precisely the alleged 

deficiencies at the Luna Correctional Facility to himself. 

The district court quite properly dismissed the complaint as 

moot. Holland v. Purdy, 457 F.2d 802, 803 (5th Cir . 1972) . 

Although a prose plaintiff is often given an opportunity to amend 

his complaint prior to dismissal, appellant never requested the 

trial court to permit him to amend . Under these circumstances, we 

hold his request untimely. 1 

Accordingly, the order of the district court is AFFIRMED. 

The mandate shall issue forthwith . 

Entered for the Court 

David M. Ebel 

Circuit Judge 

1 The district court was also correct in not construing the 

complaint as an attempt to bring a class action. Appellant was 

only briefly held in the Luna County Correctional Facility and he 

could not "fairly and adequately protect the interests of the 

class." Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(a). 

Appellate Case: 89-2221 Document: 01019965761 Date Filed: 03/01/1990 Page: 2