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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 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

WILLIAM ALLEN GARRETT, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

JEFF MACOMBER, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:16-cv-1336 KJM AC P 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 

§ 1983, has filed a motion to join a new defendant. ECF No. 125. The motion appears to seek 

leave to amend the complaint to add the California Men’s Colony, or possibly the warden of that 

prison, as a new defendant based on several rules violations that took place in 2019. Id. The 

motion will be denied. This action deals with alleged due process and equal protection violations 

arising out of a disciplinary proceeding that took place at California State Prison, Sacramento at 

the end of 2015. ECF No. 1. Although plaintiff has failed to provide a copy of his proposed 

amended complaint, it appears that the claims he seeks to bring against the new defendant arise 

out of incidents at a different prison over three years later. The new claims do not involve the 

same defendants or arise out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or 

occurrences, making joinder improper. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 18(a) (joinder of claims); Fed. R. Civ. 

P. 20(a)(2) (joinder of defendants). If plaintiff wishes to pursue claims related to incidents that 

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occurred when he was housed at the California Men’s Colony, which is located in San Luis 

Obispo County, he may do so in a separate lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the 

Central District of California. 

 Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff’s motion to add a new defendant, 

ECF No. 125, is denied. 

DATED: March 19, 2020 

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