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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

Dennis J. Woods, Jr., 

Plaintiff, 

vs.

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, et al., 

Defendants. 

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No. CV 05-0221-PHX-NVW (ECV)

ORDER

Plaintiff Dennis J. Woods, Jr., a county jail inmate at the Maricopa County Durango

Jail in Phoenix, Arizona, filed a pro se Complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The Court

will dismiss the action without prejudice.

On January 19, 2005, the Court received Plaintiff’s Complaint for filing. (Doc. #1).

The same day, the Court issued a Notice of Assignment (Doc. #2) to Plaintiff. On September

23, 2005, the Court sent an order directing monthly payments to be made from the prison

trust account and a service order to Plaintiff (Doc. # 3, 4). On October 3, 2005, the

September 23, 2005 Orders were returned in the mail as undeliverable. Plaintiff has not

provided the Court with his present address, and more than eight months has elapsed since

he filed his Complaint.

Local Rule of Civil Procedure 3.4(a) requires that a prisoner-litigant comply with the

instructions attached to the court-approved complaint form. Those instructions state: “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

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of your case.” Information and Instructions for a Prisoner Filing Civil Rights Complaint at

2, ¶ H. To this date, Plaintiff has failed to provide the Court with his current address. 

Plaintiff was warned that failure to file a notice of change of address could result in

the dismissal of the action. See Carey v. King, 856 F.2d 1439, 1441 (9th Cir. 1988)

(providing that “[a] party, not the district court, bears the burden of keeping the court

apprised of any changes in his mailing address.”). Plaintiff has not filed a notice of change

of address and mail sent to his last know address has been returned. An order to show cause

why this action should not be dismissed for failure to prosecute would be futile. See Carey,

856 F.2d at 1441 (providing that “[a]n order to show cause why dismissal is not warranted

or an order imposing sanctions would only find itself taking a round trip tour through the

United States mail”). Accordingly, this case will be dismissed without prejudice.

IT IS ORDERED that this action is dismissed without prejudice pursuant to Rule

41(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Clerk of Court shall enter judgment

accordingly. DATED this 13th day of October, 2005.

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