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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

DAVID MILLER VAN WORMER, )

)

Plaintiff, )

) CIV 05-00216 PHX SRB (MEA)

v. ) 

)

JOSEPH ARPAIO, ) REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION

) FOR DISMISSAL WITHOUT

Defendant. ) PREJUDICE

____________________________ )

Plaintiff, while an inmate at the Maricopa County

Durango Jail in Phoenix, Arizona, filed a pro se complaint

pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on January 19, 2005. On October

13, 2005, the Court issued an order directing monthly payments

be made from Plaintiff’s inmate account and sent a copy of the

payment order to Plaintiff. The Court ordered Plaintiff to

return a service packet to the Court for service on Defendant

and ordered Plaintiff to return the service packet on or before

November 2, 2005. See Docket No. 3. The service packet has not

been returned to the Court and the Court’s orders mailed to

Plaintiff have been returned to the Court as undeliverable.

Plaintiff has not provided the Court with his current address.

Rule 3.4, Local Rules of Civil Procedure for the United

States District Court for the District of Arizona requires

prisoner-litigants to comply with instructions attached to the

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Court-approved complaint form for use in section 1983 actions.

Those instructions provide: “You must immediately notify the

clerk...in writing of any change in your mailing address.

Failure to notify the court of any change in your mailing

address may result in the dismissal of your case.” 

Plaintiff was warned that failure to file a notice of

change of address or to otherwise comply with the Court’s orders

could result in the dismissal of his suit. Plaintiff has not

filed a notice of change of address and mail sent to his last

known address was returned. An order to show cause why this

action should not be dismissed for failure to serve the

defendant or for failure to prosecute would be futile. See

Carey v. King, 856 F.2d 1439, 1441 (9th Cir. 1988) (stating that

“[a]n order to show cause why dismissal is not warranted or an

order imposing sanctions would only finding itself taking a

round trip tour through the United States mail).

THEREFORE, IT IS RECOMMENDED that Plaintiff’s complaint

be dismissed without prejudice for Plaintiff’s failure to comply

with the Court’s order of October 13, 2005.

DATED this 14th day of November, 2005.

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