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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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

COSME PRESAS,

Plaintiff,

v.

KERN MEDICAL CENTER, et al.,

Defendants.

_____________________________________/

Case No. 1:13-cv-02038-LJO-SKO (PC)

ORDER (1) DISREGARDING PROPOSED 

SUPPLEMENTAL COMPLAINT AND (2) 

GRANTING MOTIONS FOR LEAVE TO 

FILE SUPPLEMENTAL COMPLAINTS, 

SUBJECT TO FILING SECOND AMENDED 

COMPLAINT THAT IS COMPLETE 

WITHIN ITSELF WITHIN THIRTY DAYS

(Docs. 19, 20, and 27)

Plaintiff Cosme Presas, a prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, filed this civil 

rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on December 13, 2013. On June 13, 2014, Plaintiff 

filed a first amended complaint in compliance with the Court’s screening order. On December 1, 

2014, Plaintiff filed a motion seeking leave to file a supplemental complaint and he submitted a 

proposed supplemental complaint. On February 11, 2015, Plaintiff filed a second motion seeking 

leave to supplement his complaint. 

Although Plaintiff is entitled to seek leave to supplement his first amended complaint to 

add facts relating to events which occurred after June 23, 2014, Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(d), his pleading 

must nonetheless be complete within itself without reference to prior or subsequent pleadings,

Local Rule 220. Therefore, if Plaintiff wishes to add facts or exhibits to his first amended 

complaint, he must file a pleading that is complete within itself without reference to his prior 

pleading. In as much as Plaintiff’s first amended complaint will come before the Court for 

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statutory screening in the near future, 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, the Court will grant Plaintiff thirty days 

within which to file a second amended complaint that is complete within itself without reference 

to his first amended complaint, Local Rule 220. If Plaintiff does not file a second amended 

complaint within thirty days that is complete within itself, the Court will screen his first amended 

complaint, filed on June 23, 2014.

Accordingly, it is HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. Plaintiff’s proposed supplemental complaint, lodged on December 1, 2014, is 

DISREGARDED;

2. Plaintiff’s motions for leave to file supplemental complaints are GRANTED, 

subject to the filing of a second amended complaint that is complete within itself

within thirty (30) days from the date of service of this order; 

3. Plaintiff’s second amended complaint may not exceed twenty-five (25) pages in 

length, exclusive of exhibits; and

4. If Plaintiff’s second amended complaint fails to comply with twenty-five page 

limit, it will be stricken from the record.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 8, 2015 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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