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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

TONY CAMPBELL

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-05-0294 DFL CMK P

vs.

J.S. SCROGIN, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff is a prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. §

1983, and has requested authority to proceed in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C. § 1915. This

proceeding was referred to this court by Local Rule 72-302 by the authority of 28 U.S.C. §

636(b)(1).

As a preliminary matter, before this court can make the determination whether

plaintiff can proceed in forma pauperis, it is necessary to consider the number of lawsuits that

plaintiff has filed and their dispositions. Plaintiff has signed his complaint under the penalty of

perjury. He avers that he has filed one previous lawsuit and answers “N/A” to the queries

concerning the docket number, name of the assigned judge, disposition, date of filing and date of

disposition. (Compl. at 1-2.) 

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This court may take judicial notice of its own records, which show that plaintiff

has filed more than twenty-four lawsuits in the United States District Court for the Eastern

District of California. See United States v. Wilson, 631 F.2d 118, 119 (9th Cir. 1980). It appears

that plaintiff has failed to truthfully list the actual number of cases he has filed before filing this

complaint. It is possible that he has done so because he has been barred from filing further suits

under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). 

Within twenty days of the date this order is filed, plaintiff must show cause why

this court should not impose the sanction of dismissal under Fed. R. Civ. P 11(c)(1)(B) for

violating Fed. R. Civ. P 11(b). Plaintiff also must describe what happened to each of his earlier

lawsuits. Failure to respond to this order will result in a recommendation that this action be

dismissed with prejudice.

IT IS ORDERED that:

1. Within twenty days of the date this order is filed, plaintiff must show cause why

this court should not impose the sanction of dismissal under Fed. R. Civ. P 11(c)(1)(B) for his

failure to truthfully declare the number of lawsuits that he had filed before filing this action; and 

2. Plaintiff must describe the outcome of each of the lawsuits that he has filed as a

prisoner.

DATED: October 27, 2005.

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CRAIG M. KELLISON

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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