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Nature of Suit Code: 540
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Mandamus and Other
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

San Francisco Division

LANCE S. WILLIAMS, II,

Petitioner,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Respondent.

Case No. 16-cv-02296-LB 

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

[Re: ECF No. 1 ]

The petitioner, currently incarcerated at the U.S. Penitentiary in Victorville, California, 

commenced this action by filing a document entitled “§ 1651 Motion, All Writs Act, for Padilla,, 

Cooper, Frye, and Johnson.” (ECF No. 1.)1 He has consented to proceed before a magistrate 

judge. (ECF No. 5.) The court reviewed the filing, determined that the petitioner apparently 

wanted to challenge his conviction or sentence but had not provided any details about that 

conviction or sentence. (ECF No. 6.) The court explained that the absence of information about the 

conviction and sentence prevented the court from analyzing the petition, and ordered the petitioner 

to file an amendment to his § 1651 petition no later than June 3, 2016 to provide specified 

information. (ECF No. 6.) The court specifically warned the petitioner that failure to file the 

 

1 Citations are to the Electronic Case File (“ECF”); pin cites are to the ECF-generated page 

numbers at the tops of the documents.

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amendment by the deadline may result in the dismissal of this action. (Id.) 

The petitioner did not file an amendment to his petition and the deadline by which to do so has 

long passed. The § 1651 petition (captioned as a “§ 1651 Motion, All Writs Act”) therefore is 

DENIED because, due to the deficiencies in the original petition/motion, and the petitioner’s 

failure to cure them by amendment, he has failed to state a claim upon which relief may be 

granted. (ECF No. 1.) The clerk shall close the file.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 21, 2016 __________________________

LAUREL BEELER

United States Magistrate Judge

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WILLIAMS,

Plaintiff,

v.

,

Defendant.

Case No. 3:16-cv-02296-LB 

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 June 21, 2016, 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.

Lance S. Williams ID: 14221-111

United States Penitentiary

PO Box 3900

Adelanto, CA 92301 

Dated: June 21, 2016 Susan Y. Soong

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

Lashanda Scott, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable LAUREL BEELER

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