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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

SAM CONSIGLIO,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-05-1701 GEB GGH P

vs.

JEANNE WOODFORD, et al., 

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, seeks relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §

1983. Plaintiff has filed a November 27, 2006, request for medication, as well as May 11, 2007,

request for an “emergency” temporary injunction, followed by a May 14, 2007, to deem that

request moot.

On November 27, 2006, plaintiff filed a one-page letter, claiming that an unnamed

“corrupt nurse” had confiscated his medications, apparently because plaintiff kept writing Dr.

Lee, the Chief Medical Officer at SVSP. Plaintiff alleged that he had been without his

medications for two weeks, was suffering severe chest pains, bleeding rectally and spitting up

blood. Plaintiff claimed that he would not be able to survive much longer, averring that he was

“not making any of this up.” Although plaintiff stated that he could prove all that he claimed, he

failed to attach any supporting evidence for his dramatic claims. 

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A review of the docket of this case reveals that plaintiff has made a number of

histrionic allegations, frequently threatening suicide, due to his alleged mistreatment by various

individuals at Mule Creek State Prison and now at Salinas Valley State Prison. It also reveals

that this court has been diligent in addressing plaintiff’s frequent requests. See, e.g. Order, filed 

August 28, 2006, wherein the court summarized the background of this litigation.

Plaintiff’s motion for a temporary restraining order was denied by Order, filed on

September 30, 2005; a subsequent motion for a preliminary injunction was denied on December

21, 2005; a later motion for a preliminary injunction was denied by Order, filed on March 14,

2007. Because plaintiff’s demanding and too often hysterical filings were so voluminous,

plaintiff was limited to having one properly filed motion before the court for which he must

await a ruling before filing another, absent an emergency for which he must provide evidence of

a good faith basis. See Order, filed on 8/28/06, pp. 7, 14. Plaintiff has not made such a showing

in this inappropriate letter request, wherein plaintiff makes no effort to provide any evidence to

support the claims, then or at a later time. The request will be denied without prejudice. 

As an addendum, the court notes that plaintiff recently filed a request, on May 11,

2007, for an “emergency” temporary injunction, averring that he was once again being put up for

transfer and seeking to stay at SVSP until he completed medical treatment for his neck and back,

now contradictorily contending that he had “received excellent medical care at SVSP.” This

request was almost immediately followed by another letter, filed on May 14, 2007, seeking to

withdraw the immediately preceding request because Dr. Lee had placed a six-month medical

hold on plaintiff in order to address plaintiff’s medical needs further. On May 29, 2007, plaintiff

did yet another turn-about, filing a request, couched in the most frantic terms, for the court to

issue a temporary hold because he believes himself to be subject to an immediate transfer which

will place his life in “grave and imminent danger,” due to a valley fever at Corcoran because of

his heart condition and spinal stenosis. This transfer is to occur despite an order issued by Dr.

Lee, the Chief Medical Officer that plaintiff cannot be transferred there. Once again, plaintiff

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fails to include any supporting documentation whatsoever; he makes no showing whatever that

his transfer is imminent or that Dr. Lee has actually issued the order or recommendation that he

not be transferred to Corcoran due to plaintiff’s medical condition. Plaintiff has been cautioned

that he must have a good faith basis for filing an emergency request; he has not hereby made the

showing requisite for the court even to order a response by defendants.

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that:

1. Plaintiff’s letter request, filed on November 27, 2006, to have certain

medications returned to him is denied without prejudice.

2. Plaintiff’s May 14, 2007, request that his request for a temporary injunction be

withdrawn is granted, and the May 11, 2007, request for an “emergency” temporary injunction is

denied as moot.

3. Plaintiff’s May 29, 2007, unsupported request for the court to issue an order

for a temporary hold upon his transfer is denied without prejudice. 

DATED: 6/5/07

/s/ Gregory G. Hollows

 

GREGORY G. HOLLOWS 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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