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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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN RAY DYNES,

Plaintiff,

v.

MULE CREEK STATE PRISON 

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:20-cv-00246-JDP

SECOND SCREENING ORDER

SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT DUE IN 

SIXTY DAYS

ECF No. 7

ORDER THAT THE CLERK’S OFFICE 

RESEND PLAINTIFF THE COURT’S 

ORIGINAL SCREENING ORDER AND AN 

AMENDED COMPLAINT FORM

ECF No. 6

Plaintiff John Ray Dynes is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel and in forma 

pauperis in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On April 7, 2020, the court 

screened plaintiff’s complaint and found that failed to state a claim. ECF No. 6. On April 17, the 

court received a first amended complaint. ECF No. 7. Plaintiff’s first amended complaint is 

almost identical to his original complaint: plaintiff has added a small number of additional 

sentences to a copy of his original complaint and attached more medical documents. The added 

sentences and attachments do not cure the pleading deficiencies identified in the court’s original 

screening order. For this reason, the court orders that the clerk’s office send plaintiff a copy of 

the original screening order. We will give plaintiff another chance to amend his complaint within 

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60 days. Should plaintiff fail to amend and cure the pleading deficiencies identified in the 

original screening order, the court will recommend that this case be dismissed. 

The court is sympathetic to the fact that plaintiff is suffering from serious medical 

problems. However, to state a constitutional claim that warrants the many costs of litigation, 

plaintiff must do more than identify such a problem; he must make allegations that allow us to 

infer that specific defendants were deliberately indifferent to his needs. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 28, 2020 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

No. 205.

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