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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Civil Rights Act

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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 Deputy Attorney General Sara Ugaz represents and has acknowledged service on behalf of

Defendants Machado, Thacker, Godinez, Evans, Selby, Sullivan, Negron, Medina, Dane and Woodford.

Although there are others who are named as Defendants, counsel states that to her knowledge none of

them have been served.

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JUMAH THOMAS ALI-MOORE,

Plaintiff,

 v.

O. MACHADO, et al.,

Defendants. /

No. C 07-00284 SBA (PR)

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS'

MOTION TO SCREEN COMPLAINT

PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 1915A

Plaintiff, a state prisoner, filed this action as a civil action in the Monterey County Superior

Court, Ali-Moore v. Machado, et al., M81641.

Defendants have removed the action to this Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1441(b). 

Defendants, who are represented by the State Attorney General's Office,1

 have filed a motion asking

the Court to screen the complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. 

Plaintiff has filed an objection to the removal of this action from state court. Cases brought

under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, as this one is, may properly be brought in either state or federal court. See

Patsy v. Board of Regents of Florida, 457 U.S. 496, 506-07 (1982). However, a defendant may

remove to the appropriate federal district court "any civil action brought in a state court of which the

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district courts of the United States have original jurisdiction." Chicago v. Int'l College of Surgeons,

522 U.S. 156, 163 (1997) (quoting 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a)). The propriety of removal thus depends on

whether the case originally could have been filed in federal court. See id. Removal does not require

court action, but rather is effective upon the defendant's filing of a notice of removal. See 28 U.S.C.

§ 1446(d). Therefore, Plaintiff's objections have no merit. Because this case is filed by a prisoner,

the Court must engage in a preliminary screening of the complaint.

Accordingly, Defendants' motion to screen the complaint (docket no. 2) is GRANTED. The

Court will conduct its initial review of the complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A in a separate

written Order.

This Order terminates Docket no. 2.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: September 28, 2007 _______________________________

SAUNDRA BROWN ARMSTRONG

United States District Judge

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JUMAH THOMAS ALI-MOORE,

Plaintiff,

 v.

O.MACHADO et al,

Defendant. /

Case Number: CV07-00284 SBA 

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 October 2, 2007, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, 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.

Jumah Thomas Ali-Moore D-62389

High Desert State Prison

P.O. Box 3030

Susanville, CA 96127

Dated: October 2, 2007

Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

By: LISA R CLARK, Deputy Clerk

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