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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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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FELIX GUZMAN RIVADENEIRA,

Plaintiff,

v.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 15-cv-03160-DMR (PR)

ORDER OF DISMISSAL WITHOUT 

PREJUDICE

Plaintiff filed the present pro se prisoner complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff has 

consented to magistrate judge jurisdiction in this matter. Dkt. 5. He has also filed an application 

for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. Dkts. 2, 6. 

On September 11, 2015, the Clerk of the Court notified Plaintiff that his in forma pauperis 

application was deficient due to the failure to include his certificate of funds and prisoner trust 

account statement for the previous six months. The Clerk informed Plaintiff that his action could 

not go forward until he filed the necessary documents within twenty-eight days, and that his 

failure to do so would result in dismissal of this action. 

On September 21, 2015, the Clerk received Plaintiff’s copy of the aforementioned

September 11, 2015 notice with a notation that it was “RTS [returned to sender]” as undeliverable

because the jail indicated that Plaintiff was “not here.” Dkt. 8. To date, Plaintiff has not updated 

his address with the court or submitted any further pleadings in this case. 

Pursuant to Northern District Local Rule 3-11 a party proceeding pro se whose address 

changes while an action is pending must promptly file a notice of change of address specifying the 

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new address. See L.R. 3-11(a). The court may dismiss without prejudice a complaint when: 

(1) mail directed to the pro se party by the court has been returned to the court as not deliverable, 

and (2) the court fails to receive within sixty days of this return a written communication from the 

pro se party indicating a current address. See L.R. 3-11(b). 

More than sixty days have passed since the mail directed to Plaintiff by the court was 

returned as undeliverable. The court has not received a notice from Plaintiff of a new address. 

Accordingly, the complaint is DISMISSED without prejudice pursuant to Rule 3-11 of the 

Northern District Local Rules. Plaintiff’s in forma pauperis application is DENIED as 

incomplete. Dkts. 2, 6.

The Clerk shall enter judgment, terminate all pending motions, and close the file.1

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 24, 2015

______________________________________

DONNA M. RYU

United States Magistrate Judge

 

1 As mentioned above, Plaintiff has consented to magistrate judge jurisdiction. The undersigned 

Magistrate Judge, then, has jurisdiction to dismiss this action, even though Defendants have not 

served or consented to magistrate jurisdiction. See Neals v. Norwood, 59 F.3d 530, 532 (5th Cir. 

1995) (holding that magistrate judge had jurisdiction to dismiss prison inmate’s action under 42 

U.S.C. § 1983 as frivolous without consent of defendants because defendants had not been served 

yet and therefore were not parties).

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FELIX GUZMAN RIVADENEIRA,

Plaintiff,

v.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 4:15-cv-03160-DMR 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. 

District Court, Northern District of California.

That on November 24, 2015, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the Order of 

Dismissal Without Prejudice, by placing said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the 

person(s) hereinafter listed, by depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said 

copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery receptacle located in the Clerk's office.

Felix Guzman Rivadeneira ID: A #044666731

MCJ ID #122734

Mchenry County Jail

2200 N. Seminary Avenue

Woodstock, IL 60098 

Dated: November 24, 2015

Susan Y. Soong

Clerk, United States District Court

 

By:________________________

Ivy Lerma Garcia, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable DONNA M. RYU

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