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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

TONY CAMPBELL,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-05-0288 GEB KJM P

vs.

S. SCHMIERER, et al., 

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff is a prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C.

§ 1983, and has requested authority to proceed in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C. § 1915. This

proceeding was referred to this court by Local Rule 72-302 by the authority of 28 U.S.C. §

636(b)(1). 

As a preliminary matter, before this court can make the determination whether

plaintiff can proceed in forma pauperis, it is necessary to consider the number of lawsuits

plaintiff has filed and their dispositions. Plaintiff has signed his complaint under the penalty of

perjury. He avers he has filed one previous lawsuit and has written “n/a” to questions about

docket number, date of filing, and disposition. Am. Compl. at 2. 

This court may and does take judicial notice of its own records, which show

plaintiff has filed more than twenty-four lawsuits in the United States District Court for the

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Eastern District of California. United States v. Wilson, 631 F.2d 118, 119 (9th Cir. 1980). It

appears that plaintiff has failed truthfully to list the actual number of cases he has filed before

filing this complaint. It is possible he has done so because he has been barred from filing further

suits under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). 

Within twenty days of the date this order is filed, plaintiff must show cause why

this court should not impose the sanction of dismissal under Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(c)(1)(B) for

violating Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(b). Plaintiff also must describe what happened to each of his earlier

lawsuits. Failure to respond to this order will result in a recommendation that the action be

dismissed with prejudice.

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that:

1. Within twenty days of the date this order is filed, plaintiff must show cause

why this court should not impose the sanction of dismissal under Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(c)(1)(B) for

violating Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(b), for his failure to declare truthfully the number of lawsuits he had

filed before filing this action; and

2. Plaintiff must describe the outcome of each of the lawsuits he has filed as a

prisoner. 

DATED: May 19, 2005.

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UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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