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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

VINCENTE SOLOMON,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-10-2103 WBS GGH P

vs.

J. NEGRETE, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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

1983. By order, filed on July 27, 2011, the court reduced the pages of plaintiff’s amended

complaint to be copied from seventy-five to eleven in order to facilitate plaintiff’s ability to

return the fourteen copies required for the complaint to be served on the remaining thirteen

defendants. See Order, filed on June 21, 2011 (docket # 26), and Order, filed on July 27, 2011

(docket # 38). Plaintiff was granted, in the latter order, an additional twenty-eight days to file the

requisite forms and copies for the court to direct service of the amended complaint. However, on

August 22, 2011, instead of filing the necessary documents and apparently despite this court’s

effort to significantly streamline the number of pages to be copied in order to reduce the burden

on the prison to provide the copies, plaintiff has informed the court that he continues to be

deprived of the required copies. He includes a copy of a grievance dated August 11, 2011, with a

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response from a Correctional Officer named P. Grant which states, inter alia, the following:

What is the significance of your court order? Why am I obligated

to copy it? You have not included it in your case. Additionally,

your court does not require 14 copies. We have procedures that we

are obligated to follow.

 

Docket # 38, p. 4.

Due at least in part to what appears to be a form of obstruction on the part of one

or more prison officials, no defendants have been served with process. Usually persons or

entities not parties to an action are not subject to orders for injunctive relief. Zenith Radio Corp.

v. Hazeltine Research, Inc., 395 U.S. 100 (1969). However, the fact one is not a party does not

automatically preclude the court from acting. The All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a) permits the

court to issue writs “necessary or appropriate in aid of their jurisdictions and agreeable to the

usages and principles of law.” See generally S.E.C. v. G.C. George Securities, Inc., 637 F.2d 685

(9th Cir. 1981); United States v. New York Telephone Co., 434 U.S. 159 (1977). This section

does not grant the court plenary power to act in any way it wishes; rather, the All Writs Act is

meant to aid the court in the exercise and preservation of its jurisdiction. Plum Creek Lumber

Company v. Hutton, 608 F.2d 1283, 1289 (9th Cir. 1979). 

The court is concerned that it may lose its jurisdiction if plaintiff is unable to

prosecute this action because he is not being provided the requisite copies of the amended

complaint for this court to direct service of process. 

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that:

1. Solely to the extent that plaintiff seeks this court’s intervention with regard to

his not being provided copies of his amended complaint, plaintiff’s motion, filed on August 22,

2011 (docket # 40), is granted; 

2. Within fourteen days of the date of this order the Warden of California

Correctional Institution shall inform the court why jail officials have refused to provide the

required copies of the amended complaint which this court has ordered, sufficient for plaintiff to

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return fourteen copies, along with the summons and completed USM-285 forms, in order for the

court to direct service of process in this action; and

3. The Clerk of the Court is directed to serve this order on Warden Fernando

Gonzalez at California Correctional Institution / 24900 California 202 / Tehachapi, CA 93561-

5558 (P.O. Box 1031 / Tehachapi, CA 93581 (Attn. Warden Gonzalez)), and also on Monica

Anderson, Supervising Deputy Attorney General.

DATED: September 14, 2011

 /s/ Gregory G. Hollows 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

GGH:009

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