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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

ANTHONY S. CATO,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-01-0524 MCE GGH P

vs.

DEPUTIES LANCASTER, et al.,

Defendants. ORDER

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On April 18, 2005, plaintiff filed a copy of a letter to CSP Corcoran Warden

Scribner re: “complaints of incessant staff misconduct as reprisal for exercising rights civil

litigation.” That document was not served on defendants. Plaintiff is advised that every

document submitted to the court for consideration must be served on defendants. Fed. R. Civ. P.

5. Documents not to be served electronically are usually served by placing a copy 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). 

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Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff’s April 18, 2005 letter to

Warden Scribner re: “complaints of incessant staff misconduct as reprisal for exercising rights

civil litigation” shall be placed in the court file and disregarded. Plaintiff is 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, may result in a recommendation that this action be

dismissed. 

DATED: 4/26/05

/s/ Gregory G. Hollows

GREGORY G. HOLLOWS

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

GGH:009

cato0524.35 

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