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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BARTH D. CAPELA,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-08-0134 FCD GGH P

vs.

D.K. SISTO, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed this civil rights action

seeking relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff seeks leave to amend his complaint to add a

claim for injunctive relief. Plaintiff does not include either an amended complaint or specify the

form of injunctive relief he seeks in his very abbreviated motion. This motion is both deficient

and inapposite. 

It is deficient because plaintiff is a litigant proceeding in forma pauperis whose

pleadings are subject to evaluation by this court pursuant to the in forma pauperis statute. See 28

U.S.C. § 1915. Since plaintiff did not submit a proposed amended complaint, the court is unable

to evaluate it. Moreover, Local Rule 15-220 requires that an amended complaint be complete in

itself without reference to any prior pleading. 

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In this instance, the motion is also inapposite because this court’s Findings and

Recommendations, recommending summary dismissal of this case with prejudice are pending

before the district judge.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff’s inapposite and deficient 

motion for leave to amend the complaint, filed on April 24, 2008 (# 16), is denied.

DATED: 05/20/08

/s/ Gregory G. Hollows

 

GREGORY G. HOLLOWS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

GGH:009

cape0134.ord

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