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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

DANIEL BRYAN WILKINSON,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-02-1493 DFL GGH P

vs.

JEFF HARADA, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff, formerly incarcerated at a California Youth Authority facility, was

directed to inform the court in an order filed on March 30, 2005, wherein it was noted that

plaintiff had taken no steps to keep the court advised of his current address, why this case should

not be dismissed for his failure to prosecute this action and his failure to keep the court apprised

of his current address. On April 4, 2005, plaintiff filed a notice of change of address that is

deficient in several respects. 

In the first place, he failed to serve the notice. Plaintiff has been involved in this

litigation long enough to be aware that every document submitted to the court for consideration

must be served on defendants. Fed. R. Civ. P. 5. Moreover, he has been previously cautioned as

to the necessity to serve documents he wishes to file. See Orders filed on March 31, 2003 and

March 1, 2004. Documents not to be served electronically are usually served by placing a copy

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in the U.S. mail. If an attorney has filed a document with the court on behalf of any defendants,

then documents submitted by plaintiff must be served on that attorney and not on the defendants. 

Every document submitted conventionally to the court (e.g., by a prisoner proceeding pro se)

must include a certificate stating the date an accurate copy of the document was mailed to

defendants or their attorney and the address to which it was mailed. See Local Rule 5-135(b) and

(c). Plaintiff is required to file his proof of service of his notice of address change within ten (10)

days. 

In the second place, plaintiff represents in his unserved notice that he had

previously sent a notice of his latest change of address, although there is no record of any such

notice in this court’s file. Plaintiff has a history of failing to keep the court apprised of his

changes of address. The case file indicates that re-service of returned documents occurred on

January 9, 2003 and February 20, 2003, necessitated by his failure to inform the court in a timely

manner of a prior address change. On January 21, 2005, due to plaintiff’s dilatoriness and

repeated failure to comply with Local Rule 83-182(f), defendants were compelled to take onerous

steps in order to file their reply to plaintiff’s opposition to their pending summary judgment

motion. See Notice of Re-service of Reply filed on January 21, 2005. Court mail was returned

again on February 4, 2005, plaintiff having failed to keep the informed as to his last two address

changes.

Third, plaintiff’s notice has been improperly filed under yet a different name. 

This litigation was filed under the name of Daniel Bryan Wilkinson. According to N. A.

Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility Assistant Superintendent Stephen N. Stenoski, Daniel

Wilkinson is plaintiff’s legal name. See letter filed July 6, 2004. For no apparent reason,

plaintiff began to sign his documents under an alias, “Nathan Sage,” which unnecessarily and

improperly complicated matters for facility authorities. See, id. Now, his latest filing is made

under the alias of “Aaron Lee Taggart.” Plaintiff is cautioned that the Clerk of the Court will be

directed to disregard any future filing from him that is either 1) not properly served or 2) not filed

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solely under the name of Daniel Bryan Wilkinson. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: 

1. Plaintiff must, within 10 days, file proof of service upon defendants’ counsel

of his April 4, 2005 notice of change of address. Plaintiff is cautioned that failure to comply

with this order may result in the imposition of sanctions. Plaintiff is further cautioned that failure

to serve any documents subsequently filed in this action properly, and failure to include a proper

certificate of service with such filing, will result in any such documents being disregarded by this

court and may result in a recommendation that this action be dismissed;

2. Plaintiff must file any future document in this action solely under the name of

Daniel Bryan Wilkinson or Daniel Wilkinson and he must sign any such filing with that name

only; and 

3. The Clerk of the Court is directed to disregard any document plaintiff seeks to

file after the date of this order that (a) does not include proof of service upon defendants’ counsel

or (b) is not filed under the name of Daniel Bryan Wilkinson or Daniel Wilkinson and signed by

plaintiff using that name only. 

DATED: 4/18/05

/s/ Gregory G. Hollows

GREGORY G. HOLLOWS

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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