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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MARCOS L MUSQUEZ, 

Plaintiff(s),

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MAILROOM CLERKS 1-4, et al,

Defendant(s). 

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No C 07-0809 VRW (PR)

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

(Doc # 2)

Plaintiff, a prisoner at the Santa Clara County Jail and frequent litigant in

this court, filed a pro se civil rights complaint under 42 USC § 1983 alleging that

jail officials are not delivering his mail to him. Plaintiff claims that this

constitutes a violation of his First Amendment rights and a breach of a previous

settlement agreement between him and jail officials.

In subsequent filings, plaintiff has made clear that although he had not

exhausted available administrative remedies when he filed this action back in

February 2007, he has done so now.

Unfortunately for plaintiff, the instant action must be DISMISSED

without prejudice to refiling a new action because it is well-established that a

prisoner action must be dismissed unless the prisoner exhausted his available

administrative remedies before he filed suit, even if the prisoner fully exhausts

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while the suit is pending. McKinney v. Carey, 311 F.3d 1198, 1199 (9th Cir.

2002); see also Vaden v. Summerhill, 449 F.3d 1047, 1051 (9th Cir. 2006)

(where administrative remedies are not exhausted before the prisoner sends his

complaint to the court it will be dismissed even if exhaustion is completed by the

time the complaint is actually filed).

The clerk shall enter judgment in accordance with this order and terminate

all pending motions (see, eg, doc # 2) as moot. No filing fee is due.

SO ORDERED.

 

VAUGHN R WALKER

United States District Chief Judge

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